Emily Clevenger’s Reviews > I Am Cleopatra > Status Update

“ history often doesn’t think women worth mentioning. I think they’re worth mentioning over and over again and moving from the margins of the story to the very center. For me, it’s the stories about women that are the most interesting.” I KNOW THATS RIGHT

“ she loves a man and he loves her back. She can choose to give him her body or not. Their affection is simple and uncomplicated, and only involves one another. There’s no transaction, only love. I will never be able to give myself to a man where there is not something to be gained for Egypt.” Ughhhh poor cleooo

“This is who I want to be, I realized. This woman of desire who is desired and loved in return.”

“I wonder how it must be to have a choice, to have the power to select my lover, not out of design or necessity but simply desire or love” 🥺

“There is no room for Cleopatra the woman” 🥺 this makes me so sad for her 😭

“I know what men believe: that our monthly blood will sap their strength.”

“My brother is not much more than a nasty and sulky child himself. He may not have the freedmen and farmers, but his supporters are the rich. He speaks only in bribes, but that’s enough to buy an army.” (Sounds like someone else I know of!!!!!!!!)

Yall Cleo is a baddieeeeeeeeeee