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“It occurred to me that there have always been selkie women: women who did not seem to belong to this world, because they did not fit into prevailing notions of what women were supposed to be. And if you did not fit into those notions, in some sense you weren't a woman. Weren't even quite human. The magical animal woman is, or can be, a metaphor for those sorts of women.”

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Theodora

Theodora was the empress consort of Emperor Justinian I of the Byzantine Empire. Born in the early 6th century, she died on June 28, 548. As the wife of Justinian, she played a pivotal role in the political and cultural life of the Byzantine Empire. more

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