We have never escaped a certain male cultural desire for women's silence. — Mary Beard Copy Share Image
My mom was born before women had the vote in general elections in England. — Mary Beard Copy Share Image
I don't want to see a world in which women can communicate on Twitter, but their actual voices are not heard. — Mary Beard Copy Share Image
It wasn't until I got to Cambridge that I discovered active discrimination against women. — Mary Beard Copy Share Image
I have always thought the women's movement traded too much on outrage and not enough on ridicule. — Mary Beard Copy Share Image
There's a basic rule of thumb that the more a culture oppresses women, or oppresses anyone, the more culturally preoccupied they are… — Mary Beard Copy Share Image
When it comes to silencing women, Western culture has had thousands of years of practice. — Mary Beard Copy Share Image
If women are not perceived to be fully within the structures of power, surely it is power that we need to redefine… — Mary Beard Copy Share Image
For whatever reason, some sorts of women's silence were broken by MeToo. This is the optimistic bit. And that will lead to… — Mary Beard Copy Share Image
You cannot easily fit women into a structure that is already coded as male; you have to change the structure. — Mary Beard Copy Share Image
Greek myths, early Roman history, is configured around violence against women. And I think we need to get in there, get our… — Mary Beard Copy Share Image
I don't think that we are completely dominated by what we have inherited from the past, but it is the case that… — Mary Beard Copy Share Image
If you say to a group of women professors, 'Close your eyes and think of a professor,' what they will see is… — Mary Beard Copy Share Image
I'm exploring the long history of women, first of all, being silenced and, secondly, not being taken seriously in the political and… — Mary Beard Copy Share Image
I'm not in the slightest wanting to attack the women's movement here. But I think that in popular, broadly left-wing, broadly feminist… — Mary Beard Copy Share Image
I do not think that the lives of women of my generation, as a class, were blighted by the way the power… — Mary Beard Copy Share Image
One of the downsides of working in antiquity is that you don't have many female voices, but you certainly have a lot… — Mary Beard Copy Share Image
When you look at me on the telly and say, 'She should be on 'The Undateables,'' you are looking at a 59-year-old… — Mary Beard Copy Share Image
I think that what will help women get into positions of power - well, day nurseries, equal pay, family-friendly working hours. And… — Mary Beard Copy Share Image
I receive something we might euphemistically call an 'inappropriately hostile' response - that is to say, more than fair criticism or even fair anger… — Mary Beard Copy Share
“we have no template for what a powerful woman looks like, except that she looks rather like a man.” — Mary Beard Copy Share
“(In the Afghan parliament, apparently, they disconnect the mics when they don’t want to hear the women speak).” — Mary Beard Copy Share
I've chosen to be this way because that's how I feel comfortable with myself. That's how I am. It's about joining up the dots… — Mary Beard Copy Share
People who exploit others come to spend an enormous amount of energy wondering about and justifying that exploitation. — Mary Beard Copy Share
Wherever possible, I try to see things from the other side of the dividing line and to read civilisation 'against the grain.' — Mary Beard Copy Share
“thinking about power as an attribute or even a verb (‘to power’), not as a possession.” — Mary Beard Copy Share
If women are not perceived to be fully within the structures of power, surely it is power that we need to redefine rather than… — Mary Beard Copy Share
When it comes to silencing women, Western culture has had thousands of years of practice. — Mary Beard Copy Share
I think that what will help women get into positions of power - well, day nurseries, equal pay, family-friendly working hours. And I think… — Mary Beard Copy Share
“One of its (civilisations) most powerful weapons has always been 'barbarity': 'we' know that 'we' are civilised by contrasting ourselves with those we deem… — Mary Beard Copy Share
