Mary Beard
Quotes by Mary Beard
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Hunting, bathing, gaming, laughing: that's living (venari lavare ludere ridere occest vivere).
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Hunting, bathing, gaming, laughing: that's living (venari lavare ludere ridere occest vivere).
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If women are not perceived to be fully within the structures of power, surely it is power that we need to redefine rather than women?
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Gender is a key marker of power and powerlessness. Most of the structures of how our world works are biased in terms of men.
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One of the great things about history is that it sort of isn't a done deal - ever. The historical texts and the historical evidence that you use is always somehow giving you different answers because you're asking it different questions.
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There's a basic rule of thumb that the more a culture oppresses women, or oppresses anyone, the more culturally preoccupied they are with that.
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What politicians do is they never get the rhetoric wrong, and the price they pay is they don't speak the truth as they see it. Now, I will speak truth as I see it, and sometimes I don't get the rhetoric right. I think that's a fair trade-off.
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History is how we have learnt to think about ourselves. It's not as though the Greeks and Romans are static entities out there to be discovered and translated. We make them speak, we talk to them, and they inform what we say.
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I have lots of heroes and heroines, mostly unsung and including my husband.
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What interests me is the idea that classics is actually quite democratic. It isn't only the toff, upper-class subject it's often thought to be. Every generation enjoys rediscovering it.
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When it comes to silencing women, Western culture has had thousands of years of practice.
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At 16, I got into local-education archaeology classes - you got to go to summer digs. It allowed me to be both intellectual and a bad girl with a wicked social life every evening!
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