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I'm a sucker for lost worlds. I was nostalgic even as a child. I was happiest in my hometown library in Adams, Mass., where nothing seemed to... →
I have three children, each of whom is having an idyllic childhood, probably because I have been at the office the entire time.
By the time Florence Nightingale got her neurotic hands on Cleopatra, she had been mangled beyond recognition by both history and literature.
For thousands of years, men have written history, so it seems to me that most of what we've read is from the male point of view.
Have you ever been married? Had that thing of someone calling you by a name not your own? It's unsettling. It's like a fictitious person.
I think with every book you realize you are partway through and there is something really elementary that you should have researched.
Insofar as there is an anxiety of influence for a biographer, it may be that each new book is undertaken in reaction to the previous book.
No biographical subject is ever on hold with the orthodontist. If there's a dry spell, it's your job to curtail or eliminate it.
No one sits on the stoop when she's a kid and thinks, 'I want to be a biographer when I grow up.'
The biographer has two lives: The one she leads, and the one she ultimately understands.
You ever try to leave New York? I did once. I lasted about a year.
Of course, women have long exercised influence behind the scenes. A few thousand years ago this drove Aristotle to distraction: 'What difference... →
Strangely enough, politics may just be the one realm in which having kids imposes no penalty on women. Kids are practically a necessity. For... →
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