Kara Cooney Quotes & Sayings

Male leaders are celebrated for their successes, while their excesses are typically excused as the necessary and expected price of masculine ambition. — Kara Cooney

In a world where seasons of planting harvests and inundation ruled life and death, it was imperative to bring the gods into daily life to help things along. The more a king invested in festivals of cyclical renewal, the more prosperity the gods bestowed. But if the gods were ignored, bad floods would result, and that meant meager planting and poor harvest, which led in turn to drought, pestilence, disease and death. — Kara Cooney