Stacy Schiff Quotes


It has always been preferable to attribute a woman's success to her beauty rather than to her brains, to reduce her to the sum of her sex life.


Citations

Schiff, Stacy. Cleopatra: A Life. Little, Brown and Company, 2010.

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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.