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.

For A Few Thousand Years, Women Had No History. Marriage Was Our Calling, And Meekness Our Virtue. Over The Last Century, In Stuttering Succession, We Have Gained A Voice, A Vote, A Room, A Playing Field Of Our Own. Decorously Or Defiantly, We Now Approach What Surely Qualifies As The Final Frontier.

No One In The Modern World Controls The Wealth Or Territory That Cleopatra Did.

When A Woman Teams Up With A Snake A Moral Storm Threatens Somewhere.

Ancient History Is Oddly Short On Incorrect Omens.