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It is better to lose someone with your entire self than to hold on to him with just a fraction of yourself.

— Marina Tsvetaeva, Earthly Signs: Moscow Diaries, 1917-1922

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“She thinks the world is tiny and the heart is immense,”

— Federico García Lorca, tr. by Sarah Arvio, from Selections; “The Recluse,”

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Underrated Female Ruler

• Empress Theodora of the Byzantine Empire

Theodora,empress, and wife of the emperor Justinian I, was probably the most powerful woman in Byzantine history. Her intelligence and political strategy made her Justinian’s most trusted adviser and enabled her to use the power and influence of her office to promote religious and social policies that favoured her interests.

Theodora is remembered as one of the first rulers to recognize the rights of women, passing strict laws to prohibit the traffic in young girls and altering the divorce  laws to give greater benefits to women.This represented unparalleled social mobility for women at the time. It gave many women access to power.

Before becoming empress, she had once been a concubine in the service of one of these provincial governors. She knew only too well the kind of power these men had over women.

That's why she spent much of her reign trying to mitigate the laws against the miaphysites. She saw to it that women could own and inherit property, which was quite a breakthrough because it gave daughters and wives real social power.

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i have been unpardonably vain, and insufferably arrogant.

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“Γιατί μας άφησαν όλοι; Γιατί μας άφησαν όλοι; Κι έσφιγγα τα χέρια σου. Δεν είχε τίποτα τ’ αλλόκοτο η κραυγή μου.”

— Μανόλης Αναγνωστάκης

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