Against Quote by Stacy Schiff

As always, an educated woman was a dangerous woman.

— Stacy Schiff

Recently a study proved that working from a larger, less cluttered computer screen increases concentration. I could have told them that. And yes, I…

— Stacy Schiff

“She did not believe Fate as painstaking as her husband; she was more inclined to take matters into her own hands. She had ample…

— Stacy Schiff

What we know about Cleopatra's looks is based purely on her coin portraits. Engraving was imperfect, and that when you are a ruler and…

— Stacy Schiff

No one in the modern world controls the wealth or territory that Cleopatra did.

— Stacy Schiff

“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

Motherhood is always an act of courage.

— Stacy Schiff

Cleopatra stood at one of the most dangerous intersections in history; that of women and power. Clever women, Euripides had warned hundreds of years…

— Stacy Schiff

“Nabokov complained he was afflicted with total recall, an affliction of which he could be miraculously cured by the presence of a biographer.”

— Stacy Schiff

“History existed to be retold, with more panache but not necessarily greater accuracy.”

— Stacy Schiff

“Véra assumed her married name almost as a stage name; rarely has matrimony so much represented a profession. It was one of the ironies…

— Stacy Schiff

When a woman teams up with a snake a moral storm threatens somewhere.

— Stacy Schiff