Cleopatra had one great advantage. She lived at a time when female sovereigns were not anomalies. And when women enjoyed rights they would not again... →
Stacy Schiff
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.
All of my friends are my age and we are all ageing at the same time. We talk about it and moan, but it doesn't bother me.
Claudia Schiffer
I am calm most of the time.
Nobody has time to keep trying on a load of things in the morning like a teenager.
I love movies, I've always been interested in them, but I wanted to wait for the right time to start acting.
Lose not yourself in a far off time, seize the moment that is thine.
Friedrich Schiller
He who has done his best for his own time has lived for all times.
No doubt the artist is the child of his time; but woe to him if he is also its disciple, or even its favorite.