“This was the dangerous line women had to walk. Curiosity versus consequences.”

“It is a fine line to walk when teaching someone that life is both beautiful and dangerous, to open up to the world as well as be on guard.”

“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.”

“Curiosity can be as dangerous as a butterfly hovering over a flame.”

“Female curiosity. Women like to know the stories of their friends' lives. Women like to understand”

“In a way, her strangeness, her naiveté, her craving for the other half of her equation was the consequence of an idle imagination. Had she paints, or clay, or knew the discipline of the dance, or strings, had she anything to engage her tremendous curiosity and her gift for metaphor, she might have exchanged the restlessness and preoccupation with whim for an activity that provided her with all she yearned for. And like an artist with no art form, she became dangerous.”