A lot has changed for women over time, but a lot has also remained the same, in positive as well as negative ways. We are less defined by our biology, in some ways, able to choose if we want children and less likely to die in childbirth. Yet we are going through the same monthly and age-dependent cycles as all women before us, we mature and we grow old. We have more access to education and the workplace than ever before, but we are, on average, still not treated or paid as equals. We are no longer forced into marriages, but we still suffer when relationships break apart. We love and long, we work, play and explore, we nurture, maintain friendships and fight rivals. Most of us have an unending sense of wonder when we are young and a view of the world narrowed by pragmatism when we reach adulthood – as did our historic sisters. I find that continuity empowering, knowing that there is something shared with all those that came before, a richness of female experience and evidence of women’s strength.