"I don't sort of sit in a chair and pompously feel proud of myself about all the things we might have accomplished."

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Here you have an incredibly ambitious, accomplished woman who comes up against some of the same problems that women in power come up against today. Cleopatra plays an oddly pivotal role in world history as well; in her lifetime, Alexandria is the center of the universe, Rome is still a backwater.

— Stacy Schiff