"My children are the focal point of my life. I was asking for a little more time to spend with them."

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I checked to see if there’d been a really good book published in the last few decades. Then I started with what Cleopatra would have read, asking myself, “What can we know about her education?” It turns out to be a very great deal, and bizarrely, no one had written about that before.

— Stacy Schiff