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Mary Beard Quotes

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

Husband Heroes Heroines Including

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

Women Culture Practice Years Had

Roman military tactics were much over-rated. All the clever ones had the same idea, which was to go round the back.

Back Go Clever Military Same Idea

The thing about being a university teacher is that you're fairly tolerant about young people saying things they shouldn't have said.

Teacher People Saying You Young

Whatever you say about popular culture, people like people who know things, who are experts, and it doesn't particularly matter what they look like.

Culture People You Look Know Say

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

Women Thought Enough Too Much Always

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

Women World Want See Voices Twitter

The building blocks of discrimination tend to be similar wherever you find them.

Building Discrimination You Find

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.

Wine Feel Talking You Without Arts

English country towns are often seen as a cultural wasteland, but the more cut off you are, the more the need to create things, to make your own culture.

Culture You Country Create Need Own

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

I Am Looking Admiration Engagement

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.

People End Nice Matters In The End

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