As in Athens, the right to participate was restricted to men, just as it was also in all later democracies and republics until the twentieth century.
“It is a great shock at the age of five or six to find that in a world of Gary Coopers you are the Indian.”
“Well, I went through some emotionally abusive relationships and allowed myself to not be properly respected as a lady, as a human being even, though I tried everything I knew to be a lady.”