Powerful women are either sexually voracious rulers like Catherine the Great or Elizabeth I, or treacherous bitches like Cleopatra or Helen of… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
Margaret Thatcher had more impact on the world than any woman ruler since Catherine the Great of Russia. Not only did she… — Paul Johnson Copy Share Image
Russia's first major intervention began in 1768, when Catherine the Great went to war with the Ottomans, and Count Alexei Orlov, the… — Simon Sebag Montefiore Copy Share Image
“I’m not— Lady Macbeth Lucrezia Borgia Catherine the Great. I am —a woman doing what she has to do. I am —the… — Don Winslow Copy Share Image
“STALIN He learned to write in the language of Georgia, his homeland, but in the seminary the monks made him speak Russian.… — Eduardo Galeano Copy Share Image
How can even the best novelist or playwright invent someone like Augustus Caesar or Catherine the Great, Galileo or Florence Nightingale? How… — Margaret MacMillan Copy Share Image
Let me say to you what I said once, in an entirely different context to Catherine the Great," Magnus declared. "My dear… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
I feel really lucky to have had 'War and Peace' as my first big telly job. I was playing this incredible character,… — Jessie Buckley Copy Share Image
“Your letter has drawn me from the solitude in which I had shut myself up for nearly nine months, and from which… — Catherine the Great Copy Share Image
Russian Communism is the illegitimate child of Karl Marx and Catherine the Great. — Clement Attlee Copy Share Image
Someone once said that to make a regular person laugh, you need to dress a guy up like an old lady and… — Tina Fey Copy Share Image
I wrote a one-act play - I can't remember the name of it, but it was really about the way women are… — Tina Fey Copy Share Image
Catherine the Great, like others of her kind, did not succeed in imparting greatness to her descendants. — Katharine Anthony Copy Share Image
I have a background in theater. At the time I read 'The Loved Ones' script, I was playing Catherine the Great of… — Robin McLeavy Copy Share Image
Writing fiction is very different to writing non-fiction. I love writing novels, but on history books, like my biographies of Stalin or… — Simon Sebag Montefiore Copy Share Image
