Motherhood is always an act of courage.
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,'
As always, an educated woman was a dangerous woman.
Ancient history is oddly short on incorrect omens.
I checked to see if there’d been a really good book published in the last few decades. Then I started with what Cleopatra would have read, asking myself, “What can we know about her education?” It turns out to be a very great deal, and bizarrely, no one had written about that before.