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" 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. "

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" What politicians do is they never get the rhetoric wrong, and the price they pay is they don't speak the truth as they see it. Now, I will speak truth as I see it, and sometimes I don't get the rhetoric right. I think that's a fair trade-off. "

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

" 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?' "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" You don't overturn x-thousand years of patriarchy in a generation. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

" I don't think that we are completely dominated by what we have inherited from the past, but it is the case that as far back as you can go - just to Homer, but also to the literature of Rome, the literature of the Middle Ages and Renaissance - what you will find is that women's voices are not taken seriously. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

" 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? "