“Do those words matter? Of course they do, because they underpin an idiom that acts to remove the authority, the force, even the humour from what women have to say. It is an idiom that effectively repositions women back into… — 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
