Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App

" I was not much good as a waitress. "

Related Quotes:

" 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. "

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

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

" I receive something we might euphemistically call an 'inappropriately hostile' response - that is to say, more than fair criticism or even fair anger - every time I speak on radio or television. "

" 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. "

" The thing about being a university teacher is that you're fairly tolerant about young people saying things they shouldn't have said. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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! "

" 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. "

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

" I think, when I was 25, nobody in the world knew who I was. "

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

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

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

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

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

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

" My mother took me to the British Museum aged five. I had thought people from the past weren't as good as we were, and then I saw the Elgin marbles. Suddenly, the world seemed more complicated. "

" 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. "

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