151 Quotes by Stacy Schiff

Ancient history is oddly short on incorrect omens.

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

As always, an educated woman was a dangerous woman.

parenting is an exercise in unintended consequences.

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

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

For three months of the year they could not be certain what year they were living in. Because the pope approved the Gregorian calendar, New England rejected it, stubbornly continuing to date the start of the new year to March 25.

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

To the punishing study of Egyptian, however, Cleopatra applied herself. She was allegedly the first and only Ptolemy to bother to learn the language of the 7 million people over whom she ruled.