When Women Could Fly

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There are images of powerful women everywhere, hidden in plain sight. But most of us never notice them. Maybe we don’t quite register them as women because they have wings.

Religion scholar Serinity Young noticed the famous Greek statue "The Victory of Samothrace" in the Louvre Museum and couldn’t stop thinking about it. She spent more than 20 years investigating winged women and found them everywhere, on every continent.