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

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" If you say to a group of women professors, 'Close your eyes and think of a professor,' what they will see is a guy. I will. And I'll stop myself and think, 'Hey, hang on, what am I doing here?' "

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

" Barring some sociopaths, probably, there is nobody who doesn't care about their appearance. "

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" I was 11 when I started Latin - not like boys, who start early at prep school. At 14, you had to choose whether to start Greek and drop German, but my mum made a fuss, and I took Latin, Greek, French, and German at O-level, which meant I didn't do much science. "

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

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

" Gender is a key marker of power and powerlessness. Most of the structures of how our world works are biased in terms of men. "

" The thing about being a university teacher is that you're fairly tolerant about young people saying things they shouldn't have said. "

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" If talking about arts means being pretentious, a bit like being a wine critic, then I don't feel comfy with that. You can get a lot from paintings without getting mystical about brush strokes. "

" I'd quite like to be in Caligula's court - living in the back room somewhere and just being able to observe. "

" I was into Black Power, and my practice Oxbridge essay was a rant. The headmistress said I'd never get in with that, but she was probably wrong. I was the ideal combination: a swot who was also a bad girl. "

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" There is nothing inherently conservative in the ancient world. "

" I loved 'Gladiator,' and I thought its depiction of gladiatorial combat, although it was an aggrandizing picture, was cleverly and expertly done. "

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" 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.' "

" 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. "

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