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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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My maternal grandma was a tough, tough lady and a stern woman, who lost her husband young and raised six kids by…
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My mother was an extremely creative woman, despite the fact that she lived the life of a rural housewife.
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My own mother fought to make herself more than a possession; she lived her life as a mother who chose when she…
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Queen Guenever, for whom I make here a little mention, that while she lived she was a true lover, and therefore she…
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This woman did not fly to extremes; she lived there.
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She lived unknown, and few could know When Lucy ceased to be; But she is in her grave, and oh The difference…
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What stands out to me most about Maya Angelou is not what she has done or written or spoken; it's how she…
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It was as if she lived only on clear, salty air, and when the day came for her to pass away, she…
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When my wife's Aunt Caroline was in her nineties, she lived with us, and she once remarked: 'Remembrance is sufficient of the…
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At the time my dog had a fungus on her chest that wouldn't heal and resisted treatment. I made an ointment with…
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She lived in fear of ifonic endings.
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I had never seen a woman in such despair before. It was worse than death, it was a constant longing for death…
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