--- title: "2 Ancient rome Quotes By Mary Beard" description: "2 Ancient rome quotes by Mary Beard. Plus more from Mary Beard and more Ancient rome sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a11/mary-beard-3016_ancient_no-women-in-ancient-rome-ever-had-the-vo_1436581.png" --- > [No women in ancient Rome ever had the vote.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-beard/no-women-in-ancient-rome-ever-had-the-vote/) [Mary Beard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-beard/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a11/mary-beard-3016_ancient_no-women-in-ancient-rome-ever-had-the-vo_1436581.png) > [“Roman history also demands a particular sort of imagination. In some ways, to explore ancient Rome from the twenty-first century is rather like walking on a tightrope, a very careful balancing act. If you look down on one side, everything…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-beard/roman-history-also-demands-a-particular-sort-of-imagination-in-some/) [Mary Beard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-beard/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c2b/mary-beard-3016_ancient-rome_roman-history-also-demands-a-particular_2775803.jpg) ## Other authors on Ancient rome - [M.C. Scott 26 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/ancient-rome/m-c-scott/) - [Jennifer McKeithen 8 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/ancient-rome/jennifer-mckeithen/) - [Anthony Riches 6 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/ancient-rome/anthony-riches/) ## More by Mary Beard > [I receive something we might euphemistically call an 'inappropriately hostile' response - that is to say, more than fair criticism or even fair anger…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-beard/i-receive-something-we-might-euphemistically-call-an-inappropriately/) [Mary Beard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-beard/) > [We have never escaped a certain male cultural desire for women's silence.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-beard/we-have-never-escaped-a-certain-male-cultural-desire-for-women-s/) [Mary Beard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-beard/) > [“defend women’s right to be wrong, at least occasionally.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-beard/defend-women-s-right-to-be-wrong-at-least-occasionally/) [Mary Beard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-beard/) > [You don't overturn x-thousand years of patriarchy in a generation.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-beard/you-don-t-overturn-x-thousand-years-of-patriarchy-in-a-generation/) [Mary Beard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-beard/) > [“we have no template for what a powerful woman looks like, except that she looks rather like a man.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-beard/we-have-no-template-for-what-a-powerful-woman-looks-like-except-that/) [Mary Beard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-beard/) > [“(In the Afghan parliament, apparently, they disconnect the mics when they don’t want to hear the women speak).”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-beard/in-the-afghan-parliament-apparently-they-disconnect-the-mics-when/) [Mary Beard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-beard/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-beard/i-ve-chosen-to-be-this-way-because-that-s-how-i-feel-comfortable-with/) [Mary Beard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-beard/) > [People who exploit others come to spend an enormous amount of energy wondering about and justifying that exploitation.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-beard/people-who-exploit-others-come-to-spend-an-enormous-amount-of-energy/) [Mary Beard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-beard/) > [Wherever possible, I try to see things from the other side of the dividing line and to read civilisation 'against the grain.'](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-beard/wherever-possible-i-try-to-see-things-from-the-other-side-of-the/) [Mary Beard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-beard/) > [I remember plastering the kitchen with Black Power pictures of Angela Davis.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-beard/i-remember-plastering-the-kitchen-with-black-power-pictures-of-angela/) [Mary Beard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-beard/) > [“thinking about power as an attribute or even a verb (‘to power’), not as a possession.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-beard/thinking-about-power-as-an-attribute-or-even-a-verb-to-power-not-as-a/) [Mary Beard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-beard/) > [If women are not perceived to be fully within the structures of power, surely it is power that we need to redefine rather than…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-beard/if-women-are-not-perceived-to-be-fully-within-the-structures-of-power/) [Mary Beard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-beard/) > [When it comes to silencing women, Western culture has had thousands of years of practice.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-beard/when-it-comes-to-silencing-women-western-culture-has-had-thousands-of/) [Mary Beard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-beard/) > [I think that what will help women get into positions of power - well, day nurseries, equal pay, family-friendly working hours. And I think…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-beard/i-think-that-what-will-help-women-get-into-positions-of-power-well/) [Mary Beard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-beard/) > [“One of its (civilisations) most powerful weapons has always been 'barbarity': 'we' know that 'we' are civilised by contrasting ourselves with those we deem…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-beard/one-of-its-civilisations-most-powerful-weapons-has-always-been/) [Mary Beard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-beard/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/ancient-rome/mary-beard/#itemlist", "name": "2 Ancient rome Quotes By Mary Beard", "numberOfItems": 2, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "No women in ancient Rome ever had the vote.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Mary Beard" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-beard/no-women-in-ancient-rome-ever-had-the-vote/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a11/mary-beard-3016_ancient_no-women-in-ancient-rome-ever-had-the-vo_1436581.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a11/mary-beard-3016_ancient_no-women-in-ancient-rome-ever-had-the-vo_1436581.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a11/mary-beard-3016_ancient_no-women-in-ancient-rome-ever-had-the-vo_1436581.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“No women in ancient Rome ever had the vote.” — Mary Beard", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“Roman history also demands a particular sort of imagination. 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That means not just the slavery, the filth (there was hardly any such thing as refuse collection in ancient Rome), the human slaughter in the arena and the death from illnesses whose cure we now take for granted; but also the newborn babies thrown away on rubbish heaps, the child brides and the flamboyant eunuch priests.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Mary Beard" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-beard/roman-history-also-demands-a-particular-sort-of-imagination-in-some/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c2b/mary-beard-3016_ancient-rome_roman-history-also-demands-a-particular_2775803.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c2b/mary-beard-3016_ancient-rome_roman-history-also-demands-a-particular_2775803.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c2b/mary-beard-3016_ancient-rome_roman-history-also-demands-a-particular_2775803.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Roman history also demands a particular sort of imagination. 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