Quote by Mary Beard Download Open image ““defend women’s right to be wrong, at least occasionally.”” — Mary Beard ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.7 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“I defend the authority of women and explore its meaning for them rather than assume they need to be more accommodating or sensitive.” — David Bedrick Copy Share Image
“We all have the right to be wrong at times, unfortunately some people abuse that right.” — Carmine Savastano Copy Share Image
Some feminists feel that a woman should never be wrong. We have a right to be wrong. — Alice Childress Copy Share Image
“The man most sympathetic to women never knows her concrete situation fully. So there is no good reason to believe men when they try… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
“Women usually justify their actions with whatever they make up in their heads.” — Jamie McGuire Copy Share Image
“You may hiss as much as you please, but women will get their rights anyway” — Sojourner Truth Copy Share Image
“I always believed that women have rights and that there are some women that are intelligent enough to claim those rights. There are some… — Shakira Copy Share Image
“I am protecting women's rights, their human right to decide their futures for themselves, and to live their lives as they see fit.” — Dr. Willie Parker Copy Share Image
“Women can't keep complaining about how society treats them if they just take being told they're wrong all the time and don't react” — Dawn O'Porter 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
