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" 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. "

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" It's a bit naff, but there is something exciting about pulling a bit of pottery out of the ground that's 2,000 years old. "

Mary Beard

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

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

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

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" A lot of people will always say, 'I really know nothing about the ancient world.' But there's lots and lots of things people know. Partly, they've been encouraged to think they're ignorant about it. In some ways, the job to do is show people that they know much more than they'd like to admit. "

" It's great fun being an academic because you have a certain licence to be a bit of a joker. "

" Classics isn't about the ancient world. It's partly about the ancient world, but it's about our conversation. It's how we try to talk to antiquity. "

" I would summarise my politics very simply as the maverick left and proud. "

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

" 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. "

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

Mary Beard

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

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

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

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

Mary Beard

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" There is no way, absolutely no way, that I would want people to stop reading the 'Odyssey.' But I want them to read it with their eyes open. To notice it and then to think what it says about us. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" I was nearly struck by lightning on an excavation in Turkey. "

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

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

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

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

" I've chosen to be this way because that's how I feel comfortable with myself. That's how I am. It's about joining up the dots between how you look and how you feel inside, and I think that's what I've done, and I think people do it differently. "

" One person's barbarity is another person's civilisation. "

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

" What is the role of an academic - no matter what they're teaching - within political debate? It has to be that they make issues more complicated. The role of the academic is to make everything less simple. "

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