When A Woman Teams Up

We Don't Know How Cleopatra Spent Her Days, But We Do Know How Other Hellenistic Monarchs Spent Their Days. There Has Been A Great Amount Of Scholarship In The Last 30 Years About Education In The Hellenistic World And Women In The Hellenistic World. We Now Know How An Upper-class Woman Was Educated In Her Day.

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 Sits On The Stoop When She's A Kid And Thinks, 'i Want To Be A Biographer When I Grow Up,'

Strangely Enough, Politics May Just Be The One Realm In Which Having Kids Imposes No Penalty On Women. Kids Are Practically A Necessity. For Scientists, Or Supreme Court Justices, Or Chief Executives, Or The Woman Who Wants To Learn To Fly F-l8s Off An Aircraft Carrier, It Works Differently.

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.