Helen Diner

"Strabo, traveling in North Africa … its women in the army but found that they ruled the country politically, while the men were still without significance in the state, occupying themselves largely wi…"

"They were conquerors, horse tamers, and huntresses who gave birth to children but did not nurse or rear them. They were an extreme, feminist wing of a young human race, whose other extreme wing consis…"

"Of all the African Amazons, only the Gorgons seem to have maintained a pure Amazon state; the others, though keeping the army purely feminine, maintained some men in their camps. he Libyan Amazons ...…"

"In time and reality the Amazon kingdoms not only comprise an extremist end of matriarchy but also are a beginning and a purpose in themselves. Roaming daughter realms, excluding everything male except…"