What Would Cleopatra Do?

Who are the strong women who have come before us? What lessons do they have to teach us?

Let's take a look.

This isn't your mother's collection of biographies. I'd be surprised if you could name half of them, even if you are a woman's scholar; the author purposefully omitted many of the usual suspects, and replaced them with some bold and sassy women whose stories have been neglected in the past. Odette Sansom. Empress Dowager Cixi. Phoolan Devi. Wang Zhenyi. Mekatilili wa Menza. Lovely to see some new faces here.

And the author takes a bold and sassy approach to these stories, using each life as a lesson for us women of today. Being a geek and proud. Building your personal brand. Bossing it.

Fresh. Startling, at times. Inspiring.

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