When a woman teams up with a snake a moral storm threatens somewhere.
An interesting thing about book groups, it seems to me, is that there is no correlation between a brilliant book and a brilliant discussion. The first seems sometimes even to undermine the second.
And in the absence of facts, myth rushes in, the kudzu of history.
No one in the modern world controls the wealth or territory that Cleopatra did.
Motherhood is always an act of courage.
Women enjoyed rights in Egypt they would not again enjoy for more than 2,000 years. They owned ships, ran vineyards, filed lawsuits, practiced medicine. Their husbands supported them after divorce. Their power was unprecedented.