Stacy Schiff

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

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

– Stacy Schiff –

Cleopatra: A Life

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