“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
Cleopatra: A Life
-
Working on it...
-
Working on it...
-
Working on it...
-
Working on it...
Similar quotes
“Romance novels are tales of brave women taming dangerous men. They are stories that capture the excitement of that most mysterious of relationships, the one between a woman and a man. They are legends told to women by other women, and they are as powerful and as endlessly fascinating to women as the legends that lie at the heart of all the other genres.”
Jayne Ann Krentz
“This was the dangerous line women had to walk. Curiosity versus consequences.”
Marilyn Brant
According to Jane
“Books make dangerous devils out of women.”
Yxta Maya Murray
The Conquest
“In Sicily, women are more dangerous than shotguns.”
Mario Puzo
“Libraries were full of ideas—perhaps the most dangerous and powerful of all weapons.”
Sarah J. Maas
Throne of Glass