Ancient Quote by Mary Beard Download Open image “The gloomiest way of describing the ancient world is it is misogyny from A to Z, really.” — Mary Beard ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.6 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Ancient Describing Really Way World
The misogyny that shapes every aspect of our civilization is the institutionalized form of male fear and hatred of what they have denied and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
How strangely is antiquity treated! To answer some purposes it is spoken of as the times of darkness and ignorance, and to answer others,… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
One of the downsides of working in antiquity is that you don't have many female voices, but you certainly have a lot of male… — Mary Beard Copy Share Image
“Misery is manifold. The wretchedness of earth is multiform. Overreaching the wide horizon as the rainbow, its hues are as various as the hues… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
The gloom of the world is but a shadow; behind it, yet within our reach, is joy. Take joy. — Girolamo Savonarola Copy Share Image
“the people were steeped in the crepuscular gloom of antiquity; and were wise with all manner of accumulated lore; and were subtle in the… — Clark Ashton Smith Copy Share Image
The banality of evil transmutes into the banality of sentimentality. The world is nothing but a problem to be solved by enthusiasm. — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
when I came to know Greek art I instantly understood that excess and perfection are enemies; yet on the other hand this world and… — Ethel Smyth Copy Share Image
The history of civilization could actually be written in terms of the level of its women. — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
Life to most Greeks may be either tragic or comic or a mixture of both; but one thing it never is - and that… — Helen Clark MacInnes Copy Share Image
Dread not events unknown, and be not downhearted, for the fountain of the water of life is involved in obscurity. — Bill Vaughan 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
In ancient times, those who wished to illuminate the world with virtue first brought order to their nations. Wishing to order well their nations,… — Confucius Copy Share Image
Ancient eyes had stared at me, filled with ancient grief. And something more. Something so alien and unexpected that I'd almost burst into tears.… — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
“Whenever I think about ancient cultures nostalgia seizes me. Perhaps this is nothing but envy of the sweet slowness of the history of that… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
I don't know if I've come of age, but I'm certainly older now. I feel shrunken, as if there's a tiny ancient Oliver Tate… — Joe Dunthorne Copy Share Image
Tentatively I stood a great lump of wood on the chopping block and bought the axe down on it. It flew into two perfect… — Helen Garner Copy Share Image
Men must speak English who can write Sanskrit; they must speak a modern language who write, perchance, an ancient and universal one. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The Tao is the center of the universe, the good man's treasure, the bad man's refuge. Honors can be bought with fine words, respect… — Laozi Copy Share Image
So too, monks, I saw the ancient path, the ancient road traveled by the Perfectly Enlightened Ones of the past. And what is that… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Ancient societies had anthropomorphic gods: a huge pantheon expanding into centuries of dynastic drama; fathers and sons, martyred heroes, star-crossed lovers, the deaths of… — Tom Hiddleston Copy Share Image
My life shall be free and broad and great, and I will not be the slave to the sense delights which chained my ancient… — Jack London Copy Share Image
Those of us with this ancient compulsion to tell stories sometimes start with a single kernel of something. — Edward P. Jones Copy Share Image
