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

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" The history of art is not just the history of artists; it is also the history of the people who viewed art. And that wider perspective can help us see some of the reasons why the art of the ancient world should still matter to us. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" I don't want to see a world in which women can communicate on Twitter, but their actual voices are not heard. "

" In real life, Oxford and Cambridge are two excellent universities, like many others in the country. They are full of highly intelligent, hard-working, and quite ordinary students and teachers. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" Greek myths, early Roman history, is configured around violence against women. And I think we need to get in there, get our hands dirty, face it, and see why and how it was. "

" 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?' "

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

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

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

" I'm an academic. I argue; I engage with people. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "