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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" People who exploit others come to spend an enormous amount of energy wondering about and justifying that exploitation. "

" It would have been nice if the people who were criticising 'Civilizations' had actually watched it. But the popular response has been tremendous, and in the end, that's what really matters. "

" I have lots of heroes and heroines, mostly unsung and including my husband. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

" One of its most powerful weapons has always been 'barbarity': 'we' know that 'we' are civilised by contrasting ourselves with those we deem to be un-civilised, with those who do not - or cannot be trusted to - share our values. "

" There's a basic rule of thumb that the more a culture oppresses women, or oppresses anyone, the more culturally preoccupied they are with that. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" Grey is my hair colour. I really can't see why I should change it. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" Nobody but an idiot would pretend that they had an error-proof way of choosing the 'best' out of hundreds of perfectly qualified applicants - not for university or for anything. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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