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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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It is an indication of the extent to which people are now isolated from the animals they eat that children brought up…
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The love between dog and man is idyllic, dogs were never expelled from paradise.
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My childhood is completely... when I look back, it was '50s in New York, upper-middle class, it was completely idyllic and golden…
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It looked like an old painting, but real - everything achingly idyllic in the morning light - and I thought about how…
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Follow your passion, we’re often told. But how do you find your passion? Let me put it another way: what is it…
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I was never going to get any sleep. I was going to have Alice in Wonderland conversation after Alice in Wonderland conversation…
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I had an idyllic childhood and when my parents bought me a Punch and Judy Show and a ventriloquist's dummy, I'd perform…
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Hawai'i is not truly the idyllic paradise of popular songs--islands of love and tranquility, where nothing bad ever happens. It was and…
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Rural towns aren't always idyllic. It's easy to feel trapped and be aware of social hypocrisy.
— Bill Pullman
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I was always a happy and loving person. Many would say that I was living an idyllic life.
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My images are unashamedly idyllic and romantic, a kind of enchanted Africa. They're my elegy to a world that is steadily, tragically…
— Nick Brandt
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