I checked to see if there’d been a really good book published in the last few decades. Then I started with what Cleopatra would have read, asking mys…

- Stacy Schiff

An interesting thing about book groups, it seems to me, is that there is no correlation between a brilliant book and a brilliant discussion. The firs…

- Stacy Schiff

No one sits on the stoop when she's a kid and thinks, 'I want to be a biographer when I grow up,'

- Stacy Schiff

As always, an educated woman was a dangerous woman.

- Stacy Schiff

It has always been preferable to attribute a woman's success to her beauty rather than to her brains, to reduce her to the sum of her sex life.

- 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 today. C…

- Stacy Schiff

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

- Stacy Schiff

parenting is an exercise in unintended consequences.

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And in the absence of facts, myth rushes in, the kudzu of history.

- Stacy Schiff