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Stacy Schiff

American Author

Born: Oct 26, 1961

Book Cleopatra Me Woman Women You

Related authors: F. Scott Fitzgerald Frederick Douglass Helen Keller Henry David Thoreau Joyce Meyer Mark Twain Og Mandino Zig Ziglar

A woman can never be too rich or too thin, but until very, very recently, she could be too powerful, for which - if she wasn't smart enough to camouflage herself - she generally paid the price. Stacy Schiff

Woman Smart Rich Too Enough Herself Could Price Generally Never Powerful Until She Camouflage Very Which Paid Thin Recently

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

Music Me Focused Distraction Write Miss Clearly Noisy Without Still Line Provides Just Roommates Keep Right Amount

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. Stacy Schiff

Today History You Woman Women World Problems Power Universe Alexandria Incredibly Some Lifetime Come Cleopatra Well Still Oddly Accomplished Up Ambitious Role Same Pivotal Center Rome Against Who World History Her Here Plays

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

Time History Recognition Both Neurotic Had Cleopatra Beyond She Got Been Hands Hands-On Literature Her Florence By The Time

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

World Wealth No-One Cleopatra Territory Did Modern Controls Modern World

Women enjoyed rights in Egypt they would not again enjoy for more than 2,000 years. They owned ships, ran vineyards, filed lawsuits, practiced medicine. Their husbands supported them after divorce. Their power was unprecedented. Stacy Schiff

Rights Women Power Enjoy Medicine Ran Would Unprecedented Husbands More Lawsuits Divorce Supported Practiced Years Ships Than Owned Egypt After Again Them Enjoyed

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

Love Too Relationships Dare Cleopatra Falling Falling In Love Convenient Her Speculate

From every ancient source, we have testimony to Cleopatra's irresistible charm, as Plutarch has it, to her ability to speak many languages including, as he puts it, the language of flattery and essentially, to be able to turn people to her will - really a great political genius, in that respect. Stacy Schiff

Great Respect People Genius Speak Political Language Will Every Ancient Ability Able Charm He Puts Cleopatra Testimony Source Essentially Irresistible Flattery Turn Really Languages Many Including Her

In an ideal world, the perfect biographical subject would have been the star of his penmanship class at grade school - and would thereafter write an English that positively sings. Stacy Schiff

Class World School Positively Would Perfect Write Ideal Ideal World Sings Been His Subject Grade Grade School English Thereafter Star

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

You Book Every Think Something Through Realize Really Should Elementary

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? Stacy Schiff

Beautiful Woman Writing Problem Think Three-Dimensional Rather More Stubborn Cleopatra Judged Am Coming Accomplishments Up Than Being Being Judged Ask Much View Certainly Appearance Inclined Keep Her

The interesting thing about Cleopatra is that she is such a shape-shifter. I mean through history we've all molded her to our times and our places. So there's room for a movie for her, but I don't think it will hew to the book. Stacy Schiff

History Book Will Think Our About Through Cleopatra She Times Movie Places Interesting Mean Room Interesting Thing Molded Her Thing

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. Stacy Schiff

Me Book Sometimes Brilliant First Correlation About Seems Between Undermine Discussion Interesting Interesting Thing Even Groups Thing Second

Strangely enough, politics may just be the one realm in which having kids imposes no penalty on women. Kids are practically a necessity. For scientists, or Supreme Court justices, or chief executives, or the woman who wants to learn to fly F-l8s off an aircraft carrier, it works differently. Stacy Schiff

Politics Woman Women Fly Just Be Enough Aircraft Penalty Kids Carrier Having Supreme Supreme Court Learn Practically Executives Court Scientists Off Chief May Just Wants Which Justices Realm Strangely Who Works Differently Necessity

Reality does not easily give up meaning; it's the biographer's job to clobber it into submission. You're meant not only to tame it but to extract substance, to identify cause and axiomatic effect. You subsist on the tactical omissions, the hollow words, the oddly unconnected dots. Stacy Schiff

Of course, women have long exercised influence behind the scenes. A few thousand years ago this drove Aristotle to distraction: 'What difference does it make whether women rule or the rulers are ruled by women? The result is the same.' Stacy Schiff

Women Result Long Few Rule Ruled Rulers Distraction Thousand Thousand Years Scenes Aristotle Drove Make Course Does Years Years Ago Same Behind Difference Influence Whether

I went out to the desert where Cleopatra camped out with her mercenary army. It's a desolate outpost. Nothing has changed since her day. You realize how far she had to travel. Not only is it a good 150 miles against the current, you can't take a ship. Stacy Schiff

Good Day You Travel Army Nothing Desolate Changed Out Only Mercenary Take Had Since Cleopatra She How How Far Ship Current Where Against Far Realize Miles Desert Her

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