And I reminded myself that a woman should be able to dress as she liked without a man hurting her…

I knew that a man was not only himself but also who he wished to be.

The curves of his smile become the waves in my ocean.

They’ll try to make you forget who you are or try to make you ashamed. But you mustn’t forget and you mustn’t be ashamed.

Selene’s life is a lesson to us that the trajectory of women’s equality hasn’t always been a forward march. In some ways the ancients were more advanced than we are today; there have been setbacks...