How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #1
"Do you know what a golem is? […] It's a beast of burden. A lumbering, unthinking slave." (1.13, 1.15)
Sadly, at this time in human history, you could replace "golem" with "woman," and this sentence would still be historically accurate.
Quote #2
The women cooked and milked and mended as the sun traced its familiar path through the sky. (5.121)
When you take into consideration the fact that the Jinni was trapped in the flask for 1000 years, this puts Fadwa's sequence of events in about the year 900… which means the Golem is still spending her days much the same way a thousand years later. Hrm…