As Always, An Educated Woman Was A

And In The Absence Of Facts, Myth Rushes In, The Kudzu Of History.

Ancient History Is Oddly Short On Incorrect Omens.

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.

No One In The Modern World Controls The Wealth Or Territory That Cleopatra Did.

For A Few Thousand Years, Women Had No History. Marriage Was Our Calling, And Meekness Our Virtue. Over The Last Century, In Stuttering Succession, We Have Gained A Voice, A Vote, A Room, A Playing Field Of Our Own. Decorously Or Defiantly, We Now Approach What Surely Qualifies As The Final Frontier.