"Certainly, I am writing as a 21st-century woman,……" — Stacy Schiff
"Certainly, I am writing as a 21st-century woman, so I am much more inclined to view her as a three-dimensional woman. I think we keep coming up with this stubborn problem of a woman being judged by her appearance rather than her accomplishments. We are much more inclined to ask: was Cleopatra beautiful?"
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31 Quotes by Stacy Schiff
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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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