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" I have lots of heroes and heroines, mostly unsung and including my husband. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I think that what will help women get into positions of power - well, day nurseries, equal pay, family-friendly working hours. And I think all that's important. I used to think it was the solution. I now think it's enabling, and it's important, but still we have got head work to do about this. "

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

" We are sold the idea of a refugee as a tiny child sitting crying, as a way of raising money, but elderly ladies and kids largely can't move. The demographic is mostly young men. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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! "

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

" It wasn't until I got to Cambridge that I discovered active discrimination against women. "

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

" Whatever you say about popular culture, people like people who know things, who are experts, and it doesn't particularly matter what they look like. "

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

" When you look at me on the telly and say, 'She should be on 'The Undateables,'' you are looking at a 59-year-old woman. That is what 59-year-old women who have not had work done look like. Get it? "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

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

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

" The gloomiest way of describing the ancient world is it is misogyny from A to Z, really. "

" 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. "