"A rich, multi-dimensional tour of Naples, most brilliant,……" — Stacy Schiff
"A rich, multi-dimensional tour of Naples, most brilliant, battered, and bewildering of cities, here fixed to the page with wit and élan. Splendid."
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31 Quotes by Stacy Schiff
Stacy Schiff has 31 quotes on this site.
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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…
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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…
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Ancient history is oddly short on incorrect omens.
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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…
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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…
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An interesting thing about book groups, it seems to me, is that there is no correlation between a brilliant book…
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Here you have an incredibly ambitious, accomplished woman who comes up against some of the same problems that women in…
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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…
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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…
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For a few thousand years, women had no history. Marriage was our calling, and meekness our virtue. Over the last…
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Strangely enough, politics may just be the one realm in which having kids imposes no penalty on women. Kids are…
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Power has for so long been a male construct that it distorted the shape of the first women who tried…
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More Battered Quotes
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It's a battered old suitcase and a hotel someplace and a wound that will never heal.
— Tom Waits
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I am not unmindful that some of you have come here out of great trials and tribulations. Some of you…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Being bullied by a serial bully is equivalent to being stalked or being battered by a partner or being abused…
— Tim Field
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The Buddha described his teaching as "going against the stream." The unflinching light of mindful awareness reveals the extent to…
— Stephen Batchelor
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Summer is the time when one sheds one's tensions with one's clothes, and the right kind of day is jeweled…
— Ada Louise Huxtable
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I inhabit a weak, frail, decayed tenement; battered by the winds and broken in on by the storms, and, from…
— John Quincy Adams
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It was a strange feeling going into a church I did not know for a service that I did not…
— Michael Palin
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I got a book token for Christmas and exchanged it for a book called A History of Art, and that…
— Philip Pullman
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My niece was a sexual-assault victim. My sister is a survivor of domestic violence. We have more shelters for animals…
— Hilda Solis
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I represent an affluent district, but when I worked to form my county's first battered-women's shelter, some nights there were…
— Unknown Author
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Since trade ignores national boundaries and the manufacturer insists on having the world as a market, the flag of his…
— Woodrow Wilson
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War is not two great armies meeting in the clash and frenzy of battle. War is a boy being carried…
— Mary Roberts Rinehart
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