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History Quote by Will Cuppy

““Hatshepsut has been called the first great woman of history. She simply appointed herself King of Egypt and that was all there was to it. To show her subjects that she was properly qualified, Hatshepsut set up many statues and portraits representing herself as a regular male Pharaoh with a beard. This fooled nobody, but it was legal proof because shew as the law, and she was the law because she said she was. Hatshepsut was quite a surprise to the Egyptians, who had gone along thinking that it's a man's world. It is, with certain exceptions.””

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