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Here You Have An Incredibly Ambitious, Accomplished Woman Who Comes Up Against Some Of The Same Problems That Women In Power Come Up Against Today. Cleopatra Plays An Oddly Pivotal Role In World History As Well; In Her Lifetime, Alexandria Is The Center Of The Universe, Rome Is Still A Backwater.

An Interesting Thing About Book Groups, It Seems To Me, Is That There Is No Correlation Between A Brilliant Book And A Brilliant Discussion. The First Seems Sometimes Even To Undermine The Second.

When A Woman Teams Up With A Snake A Moral Storm Threatens Somewhere.

Strangely Enough, Politics May Just Be The One Realm In Which Having Kids Imposes No Penalty On Women. Kids Are Practically A Necessity. For Scientists, Or Supreme Court Justices, Or Chief Executives, Or The Woman Who Wants To Learn To Fly F-l8s Off An Aircraft Carrier, It Works Differently.

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