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
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
The gloomiest way of describing the ancient world is it is misogyny from A to Z, really. — Mary Beard Copy Share Image
We are sold the idea of a refugee as a tiny child sitting crying, as a way of raising money, but elderly… — Mary Beard Copy Share Image
Nobody but an idiot would pretend that they had an error-proof way of choosing the 'best' out of hundreds of perfectly qualified… — 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
When it comes to silencing women, Western culture has had thousands of years of practice. — 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 I think… — Mary Beard Copy Share Image
“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 Image
