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Stacy Madeleine Schiff is an American nonfiction author. She was formerly a guest columnist for The New York Times. Writing in The Wall Street Journal, Brad Gooch has called her "perhaps the most seductive writer of nonfiction prose in America in our time."

✵ 26. October 1961
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“As always, an educated woman was a dangerous woman.”

Stacy Schiff

Source: Cleopatra: A Life

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

Stacy Schiff

Source: Cleopatra: A Life

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

Stacy Schiff

Source: Cleopatra: A Life

“Cleopatra stood at one of the most dangerous intersections in history; that of women and power. Clever women, Euripides had warned hundreds of years earlier, were dangerous.”

Stacy Schiff

Source: Cleopatra: A Life

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