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Stacy Schiff quotes: I can't write a line without music - it provides just the right amount of distraction to keep me focused. Clearly, I still miss the noisy roommates.

I can't write a line without music - it provides just the right amount of distraction to keep me focused. Clearly, I still miss the noisy roommates.

Stacy Schiff quotes: Yet what difference does it make whether the women rule or the rulers are ruled by women? The result is the same. - ARISTOTLE

Yet what difference does it make whether the women rule or the rulers are ruled by women? The result is the same. - ARISTOTLE

Stacy Schiff quotes: The best that can be said of the Alexandrian War is that Caesar acquitted himself brilliantly in a situation in which he stupidly found himself.

The best that can be said of the Alexandrian War is that Caesar acquitted himself brilliantly in a situation in which he stupidly found himself.

Stacy Schiff quotes: Have you ever been married? Had that thing of someone calling you by a name not your own? It's unsettling. It's like a fictitious person.

Have you ever been married? Had that thing of someone calling you by a name not your own? It's unsettling. It's like a fictitious person.

Stacy Schiff quotes: Disdain is a natural condition of the mind in exile;

Disdain is a natural condition of the mind in exile;

Stacy Schiff quotes: published, Beverly minister John Hale had produced

published, Beverly minister John Hale had produced

Stacy Schiff quotes: You ever try to leave New York? I did once. I lasted about a year.

You ever try to leave New York? I did once. I lasted about a year.

Stacy Schiff quotes: Blind passion was one thing, all-knowing intimacy a rarer commodity.

Blind passion was one thing, all-knowing intimacy a rarer commodity.

Stacy Schiff quotes: When a woman teams up with a snake a moral storm threatens somewhere.

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

Stacy Schiff quotes: It was rare to find a member of the family who did not liquidate a relative or two, Cleopatra VII included.

It was rare to find a member of the family who did not liquidate a relative or two, Cleopatra VII included.

Stacy Schiff quotes: No biographical subject is ever on hold with the orthodontist. If there's a dry spell, it's your job to curtail or eliminate it.

No biographical subject is ever on hold with the orthodontist. If there's a dry spell, it's your job to curtail or eliminate it.

Stacy Schiff quotes: Who can adequately express his astonishment at the changes of fortune, and the mysterious vicissitudes in human affairs?

Who can adequately express his astonishment at the changes of fortune, and the mysterious vicissitudes in human affairs?

Stacy Schiff quotes: He was universally charming, as only a writer in pursuit of a publisher can be.

He was universally charming, as only a writer in pursuit of a publisher can be.

Stacy Schiff quotes: Dioscorides, an expert on medicinal plants, had ample material on which to base a pioneering treatise on bubonic plague.

Dioscorides, an expert on medicinal plants, had ample material on which to base a pioneering treatise on bubonic plague.

Stacy Schiff quotes: I wouldn't dare to speculate as to Cleopatra's falling in love. Her relationships are too convenient for that.

I wouldn't dare to speculate as to Cleopatra's falling in love. Her relationships are too convenient for that.

Stacy Schiff quotes: I'm a sucker for lost worlds. I was nostalgic even as a child. I was happiest in my hometown library in Adams, Mass., where nothing seemed to change.

I'm a sucker for lost worlds. I was nostalgic even as a child. I was happiest in my hometown library in Adams, Mass., where nothing seemed to change.

Stacy Schiff quotes: Diadem, Cleopatra took part throughout the trip in religious

Diadem, Cleopatra took part throughout the trip in religious

Stacy Schiff quotes: Salem is in part a story of what happens when a set of unanswerable questions meets a set of unquestioned answers.

Salem is in part a story of what happens when a set of unanswerable questions meets a set of unquestioned answers.

Stacy Schiff quotes: And in the absence of facts, myth rushes in, the kudzu of history.

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

Stacy Schiff quotes: The Ptolemaic system has been compared to that of Soviet Russia; it stands among the most closely controlled economies in history.

The Ptolemaic system has been compared to that of Soviet Russia; it stands among the most closely controlled economies in history.

Stacy Schiff quotes: It did what a foreign adventure is supposed to do-it made the mundane thrilling.

It did what a foreign adventure is supposed to do-it made the mundane thrilling.

Stacy Schiff quotes: You could not really bargain away your soul before it was established that you had one.

You could not really bargain away your soul before it was established that you had one.

Stacy Schiff quotes: As always, an educated woman was a dangerous woman.

As always, an educated woman was a dangerous woman.

Stacy Schiff quotes: Motherhood is always an act of courage.

Motherhood is always an act of courage.

Stacy Schiff quotes: We will declare frankly that nothing is clear in this world. Only fools and charlatans know and understand everything. - ANTON CHEKHOV

We will declare frankly that nothing is clear in this world. Only fools and charlatans know and understand everything. - ANTON CHEKHOV

Stacy Schiff quotes: So it was that when a fiery wisp of a girl presented herself before an adroit, much older man of the world, credit for the seduction fell to her.

So it was that when a fiery wisp of a girl presented herself before an adroit, much older man of the world, credit for the seduction fell to her.

Stacy Schiff quotes: For all its erudition, Cleopatra's Egypt produced no fine historian.

For all its erudition, Cleopatra's Egypt produced no fine historian.

Stacy Schiff quotes: For thousands of years, men have written history, so it seems to me that most of what we've read is from the male point of view.

For thousands of years, men have written history, so it seems to me that most of what we've read is from the male point of view.

Stacy Schiff quotes: I have three children, each of whom is having an idyllic childhood, probably because I have been at the office the entire time.

I have three children, each of whom is having an idyllic childhood, probably because I have been at the office the entire time.

Stacy Schiff quotes: Insofar as there is an anxiety of influence for a biographer, it may be that each new book is undertaken in reaction to the previous book.

Insofar as there is an anxiety of influence for a biographer, it may be that each new book is undertaken in reaction to the previous book.

Stacy Schiff quotes: No one in the modern world controls the wealth or territory that Cleopatra did.

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

Stacy Schiff quotes: Parenting is an exercise in unintended consequences.

Parenting is an exercise in unintended consequences.

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

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 quotes: The biographer has two lives: The one she leads, and the one she ultimately understands.

The biographer has two lives: The one she leads, and the one she ultimately understands.

Stacy Schiff quotes: With her death Egypt became a Roman province. It would not recover its autonomy until the twentieth century.

With her death Egypt became a Roman province. It would not recover its autonomy until the twentieth century.

Stacy Schiff quotes: Nabokov complained he was afflicted with total recall, an affliction of which he could be miraculously cured by the presence of a biographer.

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 quotes: Everything that lifts people above their fellows arouses both emulation and jealousy.

Everything that lifts people above their fellows arouses both emulation and jealousy.

Stacy Schiff quotes: Witchcraft tied up loose ends, accounting for the arbitrary, the eerie, and the unneighborly.

Witchcraft tied up loose ends, accounting for the arbitrary, the eerie, and the unneighborly.

Stacy Schiff quotes: Cleopatra descended from a long line of murderers and faithfully upheld the family tradition but was, for her time and place, remarkably well behaved.

Cleopatra descended from a long line of murderers and faithfully upheld the family tradition but was, for her time and place, remarkably well behaved.

Stacy Schiff quotes: Apollodorus came, Caesar saw, Cleopatra conquered.

Apollodorus came, Caesar saw, Cleopatra conquered.

Stacy Schiff quotes: Everyone has a captivity narrative; today we call it memoir.

Everyone has a captivity narrative; today we call it memoir.

Stacy Schiff quotes: It is notable that when she is not condemned for being too bold and masculine, Cleopatra is taken to task for being unduly frail and feminine.

It is notable that when she is not condemned for being too bold and masculine, Cleopatra is taken to task for being unduly frail and feminine.

Stacy Schiff quotes: When a woman thinks alone, she thinks evil.

When a woman thinks alone, she thinks evil.

Stacy Schiff quotes: There was good reason why Cleopatra's subjects viewed time as a coil of endless repetitions.

There was good reason why Cleopatra's subjects viewed time as a coil of endless repetitions.

Stacy Schiff quotes: By the time Florence Nightingale got her neurotic hands on Cleopatra, she had been mangled beyond recognition by both history and literature.

By the time Florence Nightingale got her neurotic hands on Cleopatra, she had been mangled beyond recognition by both history and literature.

Stacy Schiff quotes: My next book is on the Salem witch trials. As a small-town Massachusetts girl, this makes me very happy. So does the reunion with documents!

My next book is on the Salem witch trials. As a small-town Massachusetts girl, this makes me very happy. So does the reunion with documents!

Stacy Schiff quotes: In 'Plutarch,' her voice begins to come out; there are actual 2,000-year-old quotes from Cleopatra, and they are sly and saucy.

In 'Plutarch,' her voice begins to come out; there are actual 2,000-year-old quotes from Cleopatra, and they are sly and saucy.

Stacy Schiff quotes: I think with every book you realize you are partway through and there is something really elementary that you should have researched.

I think with every book you realize you are partway through and there is something really elementary that you should have researched.

Stacy Schiff quotes: History is written not only by posterity, but for posterity as well.

History is written not only by posterity, but for posterity as well.

Stacy Schiff quotes: Ancient history is oddly short on incorrect omens.

Ancient history is oddly short on incorrect omens.

Stacy Schiff quotes: Puberty," it has been said, "is everyone's first experience of a sentient madness.

Puberty," it has been said, "is everyone's first experience of a sentient madness.

Stacy Schiff quotes: Romans marveled that in Egypt female children were not left to die; a Roman was obligated to raise only his first-born daughter.

Romans marveled that in Egypt female children were not left to die; a Roman was obligated to raise only his first-born daughter.