Ancient history is oddly short on incorrect omens.

Power has for so long been a male construct that it distorted the shape of the first women who tried it on, only to find themselves in a sort of straitjacket.

As always, an educated woman was a dangerous woman.

I'm a sucker for lost worlds. I was nostalgic even as a child. I was happiest in my hometown library in Adams, Mass., where nothing seemed to change.

No one in the modern world controls the wealth or territory that Cleopatra did.

No one sits on the stoop when she's a kid and thinks, 'I want to be a biographer when I grow up,'

When a woman teams up with a snake a moral storm threatens somewhere.