187 Quotes by Mary Beard

I'd quite like to be in Caligula's court - living in the back room somewhere and just being able to observe.

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

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.

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

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?

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

My day job is working on Roman history and ancient Roman history.

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

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