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" However judicious academics may be - not like me - they are all taught to see through crap. "

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" 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. "

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

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

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

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

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

" One of its most powerful weapons has always been 'barbarity': 'we' know that 'we' are civilised by contrasting ourselves with those we deem to be un-civilised, with those who do not - or cannot be trusted to - share our values. "

" 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? "

" You always regret upsetting people needlessly. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

" For whatever reason, some sorts of women's silence were broken by MeToo. This is the optimistic bit. And that will lead to a much more careful attention to women's voices. "

" 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. "

" In 1984, I returned to Newnham College at Cambridge University to teach after completing my Ph.D. there a couple of years earlier. Almost all of my colleagues in the university's classics department were men, and my office at the all-women's college was in the dorm. "

" I think most people gain some sense of how to look at a painting, but no one ever teaches you how to look at a piece of silver. "

" You can hardly be a classicist and not be interested in theatre. "

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

" The reason why the British theatrical tradition is world-leading in Greek drama is because there is a flourishing tradition of people rethinking Greek tragedy. "

" My fantasy is going into a men's loo. And listening to what they say. "

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

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

" You can't always worry about offending people. "

" I have always hated fancy dress parties. "

" Wherever possible, I try to see things from the other side of the dividing line and to read civilisation 'against the grain.' "

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

" 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. "

" One of the downsides of working in antiquity is that you don't have many female voices, but you certainly have a lot of male terror about the potential of women's power. It shows you very clearly that the most oppressive cultures tend to be afraid of those whom they oppress. "