Gender is a key marker of power and powerlessness. Most of the structures of how our world works are biased in terms… — Mary Beard Copy Share Image
“we have no template for what a powerful woman looks like, except that she looks rather like a man.” — 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
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
When it comes to silencing women, Western culture has had thousands of years of practice. — 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
“It is not just that it is more difficult for women to succeed; they get treated much more harshly if ever they… — 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
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'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
“But my basic premise is that our mental, cultural template for a powerful person remains resolutely male. If we close our eyes… — Mary Beard Copy Share Image
“Those reasons are much more basic: it is flagrantly unjust to keep women out, by whatever unconscious means we do so; and… — 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. That means… — 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 Image
We have never escaped a certain male cultural desire for women's silence. — Mary Beard Copy Share Image
“we have no template for what a powerful woman looks like, except that she looks rather like a man.” — Mary Beard Copy Share Image
“(In the Afghan parliament, apparently, they disconnect the mics when they don’t want to hear the women speak).” — Mary Beard Copy Share Image
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 Image
People who exploit others come to spend an enormous amount of energy wondering about and justifying that exploitation. — Mary Beard Copy Share Image
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 Image
I remember plastering the kitchen with Black Power pictures of Angela Davis. — Mary Beard Copy Share Image
“thinking about power as an attribute or even a verb (‘to power’), not as a possession.” — 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 rather than… — Mary Beard Copy Share Image
