Classics isn't about the ancient world. It's partly about the ancient world, but it's about our conversation. It's how we try to… — Mary Beard Copy Share Image
My mother took me to the British Museum aged five. I had thought people from the past weren't as good as we… — Mary Beard Copy Share Image
We make two mistakes about the ancient world. One is to assume they were better than us - that, for instance, the… — Mary Beard Copy Share Image
What I find very interesting is, we're not enthralled by the ancient world, and we've escaped all kinds of ancient preconceptions and… — 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
I don't want to see a world in which women can communicate on Twitter, but their actual voices are not heard. — Mary Beard Copy Share Image
The history of art is not just the history of artists; it is also the history of the people who viewed art.… — Mary Beard Copy Share Image
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
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
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
