Remember Quote by Elizabeth Taylor

The interesting thing about Cleopatra is that she is such a shape-shifter. I mean through history we've all molded her to our times and…

— Stacy Schiff

The name Cleopatra wakens the world to life.

— Carmen Boullosa

Cleopatra was exhausting to play, but also completely exhilarating. She creates her own energy.

— Harriet Walter

Great historians can make the discovery of the real story more exciting than the romantic myth. Stacy Schiff, a great historian as well as…

— Evan Thomas

“…often women aren’t allowed to be characters in history, they have to be stereotypes. Cleopatra was a poet and a philosopher, she was incredibly…

— Bettany Hughes

I mean she's Cleopatra... shouldn't she and Antony have known better? They were so different..." "Variety is the spice of life" "And from a…

— Ally Carter

Indeed, it is measure of how little we know about Cleopatra that the only images of her are either the coins she struck, bearing…

— Michael Korda

Stacy Schiff is that rare combination: a first-rate historian and a brilliant storyteller. Using a wide range of sources, she spins straw into gold,…

— Rick Riordan

“Historians start with Cleopatra and the pharaohs and comb through every year in human history ever since, looking in every corner of the world…

— Malcolm Gladwell

“A human is the one, who would give up a thousand Cleopatras to be with the person he or she loves.”

— Abhijit Naskar

In 'Plutarch,' her voice begins to come out; there are actual 2,000-year-old quotes from Cleopatra, and they are sly and saucy.

— Stacy Schiff