Clever Quote by Stacy Schiff

“A capable, clear-eyed sovereign, she knew how to build a fleet, suppress an insurrection, control a currency, alleviate a famine. An eminent Roman general…

— Stacy Schiff

Here you have an incredibly ambitious, accomplished woman who comes up against some of the same problems that women in power come up against…

— Stacy Schiff

Cleopatra had one great advantage. She lived at a time when female sovereigns were not anomalies. And when women enjoyed rights they would not…

— Stacy Schiff

I really don't remember much about Cleopatra. There were a lot of other things going on.

— Elizabeth Taylor

“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

“Some of the most dangerous women in history are not known as dangerous by having picked up a sword, a gun, or a vial…

— Rhiannon Mills

“As a famous historian once said, in all its history, Rome deigned to fear two people; one was Hannibal, the other was a woman.”

— Karen Essex

Perhaps women were once so dangerous that they had to have their feet bound

— Maxine Hong Kingston

“The most dangerous people in the world weren’t the extremists, Nadia thought; they were the highly educated and super-intelligent extremists.”

— Orest Stelmach

“While they were sitting in the room above his shop there had been a distance, and she had never feared—and never hoped— that the…

— Alice Munro

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

— Harriet Walter

For throughout history, you can read the stories of women who - against all the odds - got being a woman right, but ended…

— Caitlin Moran