An Interesting Thing About Book

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.

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

Cleopatra Stood At One Of The Most Dangerous Intersections In History; That Of Women And Power. Clever Women, Euripides Had Warned Hundreds Of Years Earlier, Were Dangerous.

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.

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.