Today we need Athena’s wisdom more than ever. She breathes soul and compassion—exactly what has been missing—into the traditionally masculine world of work and success. Her emergence, fully armed and independent, from Zeus’s head, and her total ease in the practical world of men, whether on the battlefield or in the affairs of the city; her inventive creativity; her passion for law, justice, and politics—they all serve as a reminder that creation and action are as inherently natural to women as they are to men.
