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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. "

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

" 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! "

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

" Democracy requires information. Plato knew that informed decision-making requires knowledge. "

" 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 you ask me what is civilisation, it's little more than an act of faith. "

" 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. "

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

" I remember plastering the kitchen with Black Power pictures of Angela Davis. "

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

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

" I'm very interested in how people in the 19th century travelled to Greece. "

" 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. "

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

" I was really good at Latin at school, and because I was good at it, I got more interested and got better at it. "

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

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

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

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

" One of the great things about history is that it sort of isn't a done deal - ever. The historical texts and the historical evidence that you use is always somehow giving you different answers because you're asking it different questions. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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? "

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

" I was into Black Power, and my practice Oxbridge essay was a rant. The headmistress said I'd never get in with that, but she was probably wrong. I was the ideal combination: a swot who was also a bad girl. "

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

" 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'm not in the slightest wanting to attack the women's movement here. But I think that in popular, broadly left-wing, broadly feminist discourse, there is a tendency to just label discrimination against women - and embedded assumptions about them - as misogyny and think 'job done.' "

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