Sarah ’s Reviews > Cleopatra > Status Update

Few men could match my military prowess. Go and look through your books and your poems: my skill is rarely spoken of. For it is difficult for men to imagine me for the general I was; easier to speak on my beauty than on my mind.

Will we ever tire of men defining the parameters of womanhood? I look at the world as you live it, reader, and grow weary.

I would have lain there forever; let the worms eat my flesh, and the soil take my waters. Let grass push through my skin, and roots bind my bones.

Do not chase shadows. Make your own light.