“I sighed, realizing that in the few hours I'd returned to the bosom of my family, I'd scarcely finished my wedding punch before being stripped of my confidence in my appearance, the pride of my vocation, and the unqualified joy of seeing my sister married off to her respectable dentist. Was it any wonder I'd flown the nest at my very first opportunity?” FeminismIndependenceFamily Dynamics Book:Becoming Madam Secretary Source: Becoming Madam Secretary
“Selene’s life is a lesson to us that the trajectory of women’s equality hasn’t always been a forward march. In some ways the ancients were more advanced than we are today; there have been setbacks before and may be more in the future.” FeminismHistorical FictionWomen S FictionAncient EgyptAncient RomeCleopatraCleopatra Selene Book:Lily of the Nile Source: Lily of the Nile