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" 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. "

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" There is no argument that I won't take seriously. "

" 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. "

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

" I don't think that we are completely dominated by what we have inherited from the past, but it is the case that as far back as you can go - just to Homer, but also to the literature of Rome, the literature of the Middle Ages and Renaissance - what you will find is that women's voices are not taken seriously. "

" 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. "

" When it comes to silencing women, Western culture has had thousands of years of practice. "

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

" If you ask me what is civilisation, it's little more than an act of faith. "

" I think you have to realize that most ancient warfare is really kind of hit and run, honestly. You go and you bash down the walls of some enemy 50 miles away and you take some slaves, you take some cattle, probably a bit of cash too, and then you say goodbye and go home and you probably do the same thing next year - or try to, or they do it to you. "

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

" 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. "

" No women in ancient Rome ever had the vote. "

" 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? "

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

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

" I'm very interested in how people in the 19th century travelled to Greece. "

" In general, I never think it is a good idea to try to recreate past successes. You have to strike out on your own, for better or worse. "

" I'm exploring the long history of women, first of all, being silenced and, secondly, not being taken seriously in the political and public sphere. It's a call to action through understanding and through looking at ourselves again and trying to reformulate the whole question of women and power. "

" You have to do what you feel comfortable with. "

" I have always thought the women's movement traded too much on outrage and not enough on ridicule. "

" If being a decent soul is being maternal, then fine. "

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

" It would have been nice if the people who were criticising 'Civilizations' had actually watched it. But the popular response has been tremendous, and in the end, that's what really matters. "

" 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 knew that Trump was ghastly. I knew I'd vote for Hillary if I had a vote. "

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