Cleopatra had one great advantage. She lived at a time when female sovereigns were not anomalies. And when women enjoyed rights they would not again enjoy for another 2,000 years. You could call them early feminists, if I may use… — Stacy Schiff Copy Share Image
For the several thousands of years before they became firefighters and physicians, women were sirens, enchantresses, snares. At times it seems as if female powerlessness is male self-preservation in disguise. And for millennia, this has made for a zero-sum game:… — Stacy Schiff Copy Share Image
Recently a study proved that working from a larger, less cluttered computer screen increases concentration. I could have told them that. And yes, I… — Stacy Schiff Copy Share Image
“She did not believe Fate as painstaking as her husband; she was more inclined to take matters into her own hands. She had ample… — Stacy Schiff Copy Share Image
What we know about Cleopatra's looks is based purely on her coin portraits. Engraving was imperfect, and that when you are a ruler and… — Stacy Schiff Copy Share Image
No one in the modern world controls the wealth or territory that Cleopatra did. — Stacy Schiff Copy Share Image
“Against a powerful enchantress there is no contest. Against a woman who ensnares a man in the coils of her serpentine intelligence - in… — Stacy Schiff Copy Share Image
Cleopatra stood at one of the most dangerous intersections in history; that of women and power. Clever women, Euripides had warned hundreds of years… — Stacy Schiff Copy Share Image
“Nabokov complained he was afflicted with total recall, an affliction of which he could be miraculously cured by the presence of a biographer.” — Stacy Schiff Copy Share Image
“History existed to be retold, with more panache but not necessarily greater accuracy.” — Stacy Schiff Copy Share Image
“Véra assumed her married name almost as a stage name; rarely has matrimony so much represented a profession. It was one of the ironies… — Stacy Schiff Copy Share Image
When a woman teams up with a snake a moral storm threatens somewhere. — Stacy Schiff Copy Share Image
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