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Mary Beard Quotes

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I was 11 when I started Latin - not like boys, who start early at prep school. At 14, you had to choose whether to start Greek and drop German, but my mum made a fuss, and I took Latin, Greek, French, and German at O-level, which meant I didn't do much science.

Science School Start You Choose

I was into Black Power, and my practice Oxbridge essay was a rant. The headmistress said I'd never get in with that, but she was probably wrong. I was the ideal combination: a swot who was also a bad girl.

Girl Power Practice Black Bad Wrong

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

Change Women You Structure Cannot

I'm an academic. I argue; I engage with people.

People Engage Academic Argue

Fate has it in for me to be an exhibit: that funny old lady from the telly.

Funny Me Fate Lady Old Old Lady

In 1984, I returned to Newnham College at Cambridge University to teach after completing my Ph.D. there a couple of years earlier. Almost all of my colleagues in the university's classics department were men, and my office at the all-women's college was in the dorm.

Men College Colleagues Teach Office

It's a bit naff, but there is something exciting about pulling a bit of pottery out of the ground that's 2,000 years old.

Old Years Out Ground Something Bit

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.

Change Good Women Power Time Men

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

Argument Seriously Take

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.

Thinking Uncomfortable You Look Mean

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

Change Hair Why Grey Colour See

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

Diversity Evidence Firm Ethnic Roman

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