softgrungecersei:“The people who always get left out of history are the poor, the disadvantage
softgrungecersei:“The people who always get left out of history are the poor, the disadvantaged, the losers and women… women appear very little in the history books because men wrote the history books but women were very powerful in ancient Rome because the men were always away… in the late republic it was only women who really had the freedom to maneouver and change things. A great deal of the back room politics was done by women. ” (x) -- source link
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