The Stacy Schiff interview

Sep. 23, 2011
My mom gave me today’s interviewee’s book, Cleopatra: A Life, for Christmas and I’m reading it right now. As I read, the book got me thinking so much that I couldn’t help but jot down questions I would ask the author if I spoke with her.

Forms of contraception and abortion available to Cleopatra

Sep. 20, 2011
Jump up and down, neatly touching your heels to your buttocks seven times to induce miscarriageA spider's egg, attached to the body with deer hide before sunrise (prevents contraception for twelve months)Attaching a cat liver to one's left footSneezing during sexCrocodile dung (for contraception)Mul