No one sits on the stoop when she's a kid and thinks, 'I want to be a biographer when I grow up,'
Ancient history is oddly short on incorrect omens.
An interesting thing about book groups, it seems to me, is that there is no correlation between a brilliant book and a brilliant discussion. The first seems sometimes even to undermine the second.
Motherhood is always an act of courage.
As always, an educated woman was a dangerous woman.
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.