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

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

" 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?' "

" I have always hated fancy dress parties. "

" I was not much good as a waitress. "

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

" There's plenty of firm evidence for ethnic diversity in Roman Britain. "

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

" We lived in the schoolhouse of the village school in Church Preen, in deepest Shropshire, and my mum was the schoolmistress. She taught the juniors, and one other teacher taught the infants. I went there from the age of three, no doubt as a form of childcare. "

" I have always thought the women's movement traded too much on outrage and not enough on ridicule. "

" Roman military tactics were much over-rated. All the clever ones had the same idea, which was to go round the back. "

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

" 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. "

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

" In general, I never think it is a good idea to try to recreate past successes. You have to strike out on your own, for better or worse. "

" I used to think that the British press were particularly awful to Cherie Blair. I think Blair's foreign policy was a complete disaster, but the British press, when they wanted to explain why Blair took unexpected moves, they did create Cherie as the power behind the throne. "

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

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

" 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? "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Thinking through how you look to your enemies is helpful. That doesn't mean that your ideology is wrong and theirs is right, but maybe you have to recognise that they have one - and that it may be logically coherent. Which may be uncomfortable. "

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

" 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. "