Stacy Schiff Quotes


Cleopatra had one great advantage. She lived at a time when female sovereigns were not anomalies. And when women enjoyed rights they would not again enjoy for another 2,000 years. You could call them early feminists, if I may use a dirty word.


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Schiff, Stacy. Interview.

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Stacy Schiff
Stacy Schiff
  • Born: October 26, 1961
  • Nationality: American
  • Profession: Writer Editor

Stacy Madeleine Schiff is an American former editor, essayist, and author of five biographies; her biography of Vera Nabokov, the wife and muse of the Russian-American novelist Vladimir Nabokov, won the 2000 Pulitzer Prize in biography.