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Stacy Schiff has 31 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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It has always been preferable to attribute a woman's success to her beauty rather than to her brains, to reduce her to…
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No one sits on the stoop when she's a kid and thinks, 'I want to be a biographer when I grow up,'
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Ancient history is oddly short on incorrect omens.
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A rich, multi-dimensional tour of Naples, most brilliant, battered, and bewildering of cities, here fixed to the page with wit and élan.…
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I checked to see if there'd been a really good book published in the last few decades. Then I started with what…
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We don't know how Cleopatra spent her days, but we do know how other Hellenistic monarchs spent their days. There has been…
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An interesting thing about book groups, it seems to me, is that there is no correlation between a brilliant book and a…
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Here you have an incredibly ambitious, accomplished woman who comes up against some of the same problems that women in power come…
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I'm a sucker for lost worlds. I was nostalgic even as a child. I was happiest in my hometown library in Adams,…
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My next book is on the Salem witch trials. As a small-town Massachusetts girl, this makes me very happy. So does the…
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For a few thousand years, women had no history. Marriage was our calling, and meekness our virtue. Over the last century, in…
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Strangely enough, politics may just be the one realm in which having kids imposes no penalty on women. Kids are practically a…
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