Quotes by : Stacy Schiff

Here you have an incredibly ambitious, accomplished woman who comes up against some of the same problems....

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

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

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

Recently a study proved that working from a larger, less cluttered computer screen increases concentration.....

History existed to be retold, with more panache but not necessarily greater accuracy.

Véra assumed her married name almost as a stage name; rarely has matrimony so much represented a profession.....

It has always been preferable to attribute a woman's success to her beauty rather to her brains, to reduce....

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

When finally I mustered the courage to tell a novelist friend that I was talking to editors about a biography,....