Quote by Mary Beard Download Open image ““Just keep mum and “block” them’ you’re told.”” — Mary Beard ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.3 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“Mothers...accept when they have to, let go when they must, but watch out; they'll also turn their back on whoever hurts their child so… — Hester Kaplan Copy Share Image
“Do the next thing, her mother always advised. It will get you through.” — Marybeth Mayhew Whalen Copy Share Image
“Only mothers can’t say they don’t want their children and just go away.” — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
“Mothers. Can’t live with them, can’t hit them over the head with a board.” — Katherine Allred Copy Share Image
“You’re the most important person in the world to me.” I quickly added in a hushed voice, “Don’t tell Mom. She’ll be jealous.” — Kim Harrington Copy Share Image
“She knows your mother isn't here to protect you any more. But you know what the solution is: stay out of her way. Stay… — Diana Peterfreund Copy Share Image
“Here’s the thing. I’ve been kicked out of home. After the last thing I did I ran out of chances. Tipped all my parents’… — Pip Harry Copy Share Image
“Mothers can be so dense. Just act like you approve of what we're doing. We'll soon do the exact opposite, just to spite you.” — Cat Clarke Copy Share Image
“Parents are supposed to protect you, but they seem to be really, really lousy at it.” — Hannah Harrington 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
