187 Quotes by Mary Beard

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

There's plenty of firm evidence for ethnic diversity in Roman Britain.

Beard's secret is always to be slightly on the edge but to pull back from disaster at the last minute.

In general, I never think it is a good idea to try to recreate past successes. You have to strike out on your own, for better or worse.