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“Leave the fishing-rod, Great General, to us sovereigns of Pharos and Canopus. Your game is cities and kings and continents.”

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Cleopatra

Cleopatra, the last Pharaoh of ancient Egypt, was born in October 69 BC and died in 30 BC. She was the last ruler of the Ptolemaic dynasty and is famous for her political prowess, beauty, and romantic tales. more

“Perhaps the seeds of false-refinement, immorality, and vanity, have ever been shed by the great. Weak, artificial beings, raised above the common wants and defections of their race, in a premature and unnatural manner, undermine the very foundation of virtue, and spread corruption through the whole mass of society!”

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Author:Mary Wollstonecraft

“[Margaret] Thatcher had just become prime minister; there was talk about whether it was an advance to have a woman prime minister if it was someone with policies like hers: She may be a woman but she isn't a sister, she may be a sister but she isn't a comrade.”

Ifs May Women Leadership Policy Ministers Prime Prime Minister Comrade

Author:Caryl Churchill

“For, what is a family without a steward, a ship without a pilot, a flock without a shepherd, a body without a head, the same, I think, is a kingdom without the health and safety of a good monarch.”

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Author:Elizabeth I

“Ardent, intelligent, sweet, sensitive, cultivated, erudite. These are the adjectives of praise in an androgynous world. Those who consider them epithets of shame or folly ought not to be trusted with leadership, for they will be men hot for power and revenge, certain of right and wrong.”

Men World Certain Women Leadership Sweet Ought Intelligent Praise Hot Shame Revenge Sensitive Folly Trusted Be A Man Adjectives Ardent Erudite Epithet Androgynous

Book:Toward a recognition of androgyny

Source: Toward a recognition of androgyny

“The shaman/priest/artist/teacher/leader does not operate for the sole benefit of herself and her kind but for the benefit of the people at large and of the universe and its patterns, as becomes what she perceives as fitting into place, into her sense of natural justice.”

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Book:Another Mother Tongue: Gay Words, Gay Worlds

Source: Another Mother Tongue: Gay Words, Gay Worlds

“The urgent need today is to develop and support leaders on every level of government who are independent of the bossism of every political machine - the big-city machine, the liberal Democrat machine, and the Republican kingmaker machine.”

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Book:Safe--not sorry

Source: Safe--not sorry

“No philosophy, my son; it is of no use to an emperor.”

Philosophy Use Women Leadership Son My Son Emperor

Author:Agrippina the Younger

“I hike and make sure everything I eat is organic.”

Author:Janice Dickinson

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