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... →
Stacy Schiff
Cleopatra had one great advantage. She lived at a time when female sovereigns were not anomalies. And when women enjoyed rights they would not again... →
Of course, women have long exercised influence behind the scenes. A few thousand years ago this drove Aristotle to distraction: 'What difference... →
Strangely enough, politics may just be the one realm in which having kids imposes no penalty on women. Kids are practically a necessity. For... →
You constantly felt like you wanted to protect her and that you wanted to save her and that's what made her attractive more so to women than even... →
Lawrence Schiller
In school, I was playing old men and women, babies, Russian people, and all sorts of weird parts - a lot of comedy - and that's sort of like home... →
Taylor Schilling
Anyone who has read a Trollope novel knows that women did not have to wait until 1960 to feel trapped.
Cathleen Schine
For women, World War II had offered an opportunity, and often the necessity, to get out of the house to work.
Stewardesses were a joke to many of us coming of age in the liberated Sixties. They were no joke in the women's movement that liberated us... →
Women are in positions of power the most radical of activists could only dream of in 1960.