187 Quotes by Mary Beard

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    Temos de pensar melhor acerca do que é o poder, para que serve e como é medido. Por outras palavras, se as mulheres não são encaradas como estando completamente dentro das estruturas de poder, decerto é o poder que tem de ser redefinido e não as mulheres?

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    Nuestro modelo cultural y mental de persona poderosa sigue siendo irrevocablemente masculino

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    La verità è che i Classici sono in declino per definizione [...] La sensazione di una perdita imminente, il perenne timore che gli studi classici stiano per scomparire per sempre è ciò che [...] conferisce a queste discipline l'energia e la tensione di cui ritengo siano ancora intrise.

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    Viewed narrowly, all life is universal hunger and the expression of energy associated with it.

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    There's a difference between what I would like to have been and what I would have been. I always fantasized about being a reforming judge or prison governor (I think that the UK penal system is a disgrace) - but it's fantasy.

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    Fame is fickle. If the media turn against me, I will just have more time in the library. Not bad as a fate.

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    If being a decent soul is being maternal, then fine. I'll call it human.

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    It doesn’t much matter what line of argument you take as a woman. If you venture into traditional male territory, the abuse comes anyway. It’s not what you say that prompts it—it’s the fact that you are saying it.

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