Quotes by Stacy Schiff

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.

Cities

Naples

Pages

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 first seems sometimes even to undermine the second.

Book

Groups

Interesting

Ancient history is oddly short on incorrect omens.

Ancient

Ancient History

Omen

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

Absence

Facts

Myth

As always, an educated woman was a dangerous woman.

Dangerous

Educated

Educated Women

Cleopatra stood at one of the most dangerous intersections in history; that of women and power. Clever women, Euripides had warned hundreds of years earlier, were dangerous.

Clever

Dangerous

Years

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.

Finals

Voice

Years

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. Cleopatra plays an oddly pivotal role in world history as well; in her lifetime, Alexandria is the center of the universe, Rome is still a backwater.

Ambitious

Play

Rome

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 myself, “What can we know about her education?” It turns out to be a very great deal, and bizarrely, no one had written about that before.

Asking

Book

Lasts

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.

Children

Library

World

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Absence

Acts Of Courage

Aircraft Carriers

Ambitious

Ancient

Ancient History

Asking

Believe

Book

Brain

Children

Cities

Class

Clever

Consequence

Dangerous

Divorce

Educated

Educated Women

Exercise

Facts

Finals

Girl

Groups

Growing Up

Her Beauty

Husband

Interesting

Justice

Kids

Lasts

Library

Long

Males

Motherhood

Myth

Naples

Omen

Pages

Play

Real

Rights

Rome

Sex

Shapes

Snakes

Storm

Team

Territory

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Quotes by Stacy Schiff

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.

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 first seems sometimes even to undermine the second.

Ancient history is oddly short on incorrect omens.

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

As always, an educated woman was a dangerous woman.

Cleopatra stood at one of the most dangerous intersections in history; that of women and power. Clever women, Euripides had warned hundreds of years earlier, were dangerous.

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. Cleopatra plays an oddly pivotal role in world history as well; in her lifetime, Alexandria is the center of the universe, Rome is still a backwater.

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 myself, “What can we know about her education?” It turns out to be a very great deal, and bizarrely, no one had written about that before.

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.

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