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" 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? "

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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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

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

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

" You always regret upsetting people needlessly. "

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

" What is the role of an academic - no matter what they're teaching - within political debate? It has to be that they make issues more complicated. The role of the academic is to make everything less simple. "

" 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. "

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

" For whatever reason, some sorts of women's silence were broken by MeToo. This is the optimistic bit. And that will lead to a much more careful attention to women's voices. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" It's great fun being an academic because you have a certain licence to be a bit of a joker. "

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

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

" I do not think that the lives of women of my generation, as a class, were blighted by the way the power differentials between men and women operated. We wanted to change those power differentials; we also had a good time. "

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

" 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. "

" If talking about arts means being pretentious, a bit like being a wine critic, then I don't feel comfy with that. You can get a lot from paintings without getting mystical about brush strokes. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

" I've chosen to be this way because that's how I feel comfortable with myself. That's how I am. It's about joining up the dots between how you look and how you feel inside, and I think that's what I've done, and I think people do it differently. "