For a few thousand years, women had no history. Marriage was our calling, and meekness our virtue. Over the last century, in stuttering succession, we have gained a voice, a vote, a room, a playing field of our own. Decorously or defiantly, we now approach what surely qualifies as the final frontier.
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
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
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
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…
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
No one sits on the stoop when she's a kid and thinks, 'I want to be a biographer when I grow up,'
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
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…
And in the absence of facts, myth rushes in, the kudzu of history. - Stacy Schiff
And in the absence of facts, myth rushes in, the kudzu of history.
As always, an educated woman was a dangerous woman. - Stacy Schiff
As always, an educated woman was a dangerous woman.
When a woman teams up with a snake a moral storm threatens somewhere. - Stacy Schiff
When a woman teams up with a snake a moral storm threatens somewhere.
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
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.
parenting is an exercise in unintended consequences. - Stacy Schiff
parenting is an exercise in unintended consequences.
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