Quotes by : Stacy Schiff

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

Life-writing calls for any number of dubious gifts: A touch of O.C.D., a lack of imagination, a large....

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

Confronted afterward, she claimed no knowledge of that bedroom tryst; she did not intend to be held responsible....

I went out to the desert where Cleopatra camped out with her mercenary army. It's a desolate outpost.....

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

Like any oppressed people, they defined themselves by what offended them, which would give New England....

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

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

For the several thousands of years before they became firefighters and physicians, women were sirens,....