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" A lot of sexism is just very silly... and the best response is laughter and ridicule. "

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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. "

" All religions throughout history have been concerned about - and have sometimes fought over - what it means to represent God, and they have found elegant, intriguing, and awkward ways to confront that dilemma. "

" Fate has it in for me to be an exhibit: that funny old lady from the telly. "

" Beard's secret is always to be slightly on the edge but to pull back from disaster at the last minute. "

" Playing around with other people's husbands when you were 17 was bad news. Yes, I was a very naughty girl. "

" We have never escaped a certain male cultural desire for women's silence. "

" 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. "

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

" We make two mistakes about the ancient world. One is to assume they were better than us - that, for instance, the ancient Olympics didn't involve money-making. The opposite mistake, and just as common, is to think our Olympics are much more civilised than ancient sporting competitions. Neither is true. "

" English country towns are often seen as a cultural wasteland, but the more cut off you are, the more the need to create things, to make your own culture. "

" I'm actually in a tradition of classicists with a big public face who like sounding off. "

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

" I receive something we might euphemistically call an 'inappropriately hostile' response - that is to say, more than fair criticism or even fair anger - every time I speak on radio or television. "

" I have always hated fancy dress parties. "

" My day job is working on Roman history and ancient Roman history. "

" My mom was born before women had the vote in general elections in England. "

" The web is democratising and also the voice of people who don't think they have another outlet. And that voice can be punitive. "

" It's a bit naff, but there is something exciting about pulling a bit of pottery out of the ground that's 2,000 years old. "

" What I find very interesting is, we're not enthralled by the ancient world, and we've escaped all kinds of ancient preconceptions and assumptions and prejudices. But, nevertheless, we still make that connection between authoritative speech and male speech. "

" 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 between how you look and how you feel inside, and I think that's what I've done, and I think people do it differently. "

" 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. "

" The building blocks of discrimination tend to be similar wherever you find them. "

" I'm not in the slightest wanting to attack the women's movement here. But I think that in popular, broadly left-wing, broadly feminist discourse, there is a tendency to just label discrimination against women - and embedded assumptions about them - as misogyny and think 'job done.' "

" There's plenty of firm evidence for ethnic diversity in Roman Britain. "

" What is the role of an academic - no matter what they're teaching - within political debate? It has to be that they make issues more complicated. The role of the academic is to make everything less simple. "

" When I am making a TV show, I am looking for engagement, not admiration. "

" Democracy requires information. Plato knew that informed decision-making requires knowledge. "

" Roman military tactics were much over-rated. All the clever ones had the same idea, which was to go round the back. "

" You cannot easily fit women into a structure that is already coded as male; you have to change the structure. "

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