On my birthday this year, while we were still lying in bed, my partner pulled out a list of everything I’d accomplished since my last birthday and read every single thing to me.
I don’t think I’ll ever recover from how loved that made me feel.
Cleopatra spoke nine languages, studied astronomy, medicine, and philosophy at the Library of Alexandria, and ruled Egypt for two decades through war, famine, and Roman invasion. Rome reduced all of it to one word: seductress.