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Artist Quote by Mary Beard

“I think most people gain some sense of how to look at a painting, but no one ever teaches you how to look at a piece of silver.” quote by Mary Beard — Download Open image

“I think most people gain some sense of how to look at a painting, but no one ever teaches you how to look at a piece of silver.”

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“defend women’s right to be wrong, at least occasionally.”

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You don't overturn x-thousand years of patriarchy in a generation.

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“we have no template for what a powerful woman looks like, except that she looks rather like a man.”

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“(In the Afghan parliament, apparently, they disconnect the mics when they don’t want to hear the women speak).”

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People who exploit others come to spend an enormous amount of energy wondering about and justifying that exploitation.

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Wherever possible, I try to see things from the other side of the dividing line and to read civilisation 'against the grain.'

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I remember plastering the kitchen with Black Power pictures of Angela Davis.

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“thinking about power as an attribute or even a verb (‘to power’), not as a possession.”

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