Playing around with other people's husbands when you were 17 was bad news. Yes, I was a very naughty girl. — Mary Beard Copy Share Image
The thing about being a university teacher is that you're fairly tolerant about young people saying things they shouldn't have said. — Mary Beard Copy Share Image
Whatever you say about popular culture, people like people who know things, who are experts, and it doesn't particularly matter what they… — Mary Beard Copy Share Image
The web is democratising and also the voice of people who don't think they have another outlet. And that voice can be… — Mary Beard Copy Share Image
I think most people gain some sense of how to look at a painting, but no one ever teaches you how to… — 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
A lot of people will always say, 'I really know nothing about the ancient world.' But there's lots and lots of things… — Mary Beard Copy Share Image
There is no way, absolutely no way, that I would want people to stop reading the 'Odyssey.' But I want them to… — 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… — Mary Beard Copy Share Image
It would have been nice if the people who were criticising 'Civilizations' had actually watched it. But the popular response has been… — Mary Beard Copy Share Image
I'm very interested in how people in the 19th century travelled to Greece. — 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
