Wonderful
Wicked Women Of The World by Barbara
Venton Montgomery
These women are described
by historians as "sexually repressed," "aggressive," "self-obsessed,"
and "wicked" yet these wonderful women led armies, and with brains
as-well-as beauty, defended themselves and their lands. Win or lose, they displayed
courage and fearlessness to the end of their lives. History sometimes overlooks
their accomplishments, but this book does not. In fact, it presents these women
with all of their faults, fears, and vulnerabilities as-well-as their courage
and strengths.
- Hatshepsut - God's
wife and mistress of the Two Lands. "The first great woman in history"
- Boudicca/Boadicea -
"I am avenging my lost freedom, my scoured body, and the outraged chastity
of my daughters."
- Guinevere of the Picts
- "And Guinevere - call her not back again lest she betray the loveliness
time lent A name that blends the rapture and the pain linked in the lovely
nightingales lament........"
- Zenobia - "Her
face was dark and of a swarthy hue, he eyes were black and powerful ......her
beauty incredible........"
- Lady Hester Stanhope
- 1776-1839 ".......a nose that scorned the earth, shooting off, one
fancies, toward some eternally eccentric heaven"
- Theodora - "Theodora
of the Brothel."