Quote by Mary Beard Download Open image ““Trump and Clinton, Perseus and Medusa, and rest my case.”” — Mary Beard ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.2 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“Only careful political manoeuvring will be able to manage the situation.” — Davan Yahya Khalil Copy Share Image
[Hillary] Clinton glossed over a lot of things, left a lot of things out that people are gonna be filling in the blanks today,… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
“Just on the brink of danger, not before, God and the Doctor we alike adore; The danger passed, both are alike requited; God forgot… — Noah Gordon Copy Share Image
“And so the broken family nestled into one another, each hoping the others' presences would fill the wound their personal war had left behind.” — Yaa Gyasi Copy Share Image
“Treachery," said the Mede. "Diplomacy," said Attolia, "in my own name.” — Megan Whalen Turner Copy Share Image
“I am President of all the people, good, bad, or indifferent, and as long as my opinions are known, ought perhaps to keep myself… — Grover Cleveland Copy Share Image
“There was a war between them, between love and the right thing to do, and it kept assaulting them, kept keeping them apart.” — Keira D. Skye Copy Share Image
“Together, they at once dodged those parts of themselves and magnified them, making for enigmatic harmony and anarchy.” — Deirdre Riordan Hall 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