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Mary Beard

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

Heroes Husband Heroines Unsung Mostly Lots Including

What politicians do is they never get the rhetoric wrong, and the price they pay is they don't speak the truth as they see it. Now, I will speak truth as I see it, and sometimes I don't get the rhetoric right. I think that's a fair trade-off. Mary Beard

Truth Speak Sometimes Will Politicians Pay Think See Price Never Wrong Fair Trade-Off Get Rhetoric Now Right

I've chosen to be this way because that's how I feel comfortable with myself. That's how I am. It's about joining up the dots between how you look and how you feel inside, and I think that's what I've done, and I think people do it differently. Mary Beard

If being a decent soul is being maternal, then fine. Mary Beard

Soul Fine Maternal Decent Being Then

All religions throughout history have been concerned about - and have sometimes fought over - what it means to represent God, and they have found elegant, intriguing, and awkward ways to confront that dilemma. Mary Beard

If you ask me what is civilisation, it's little more than an act of faith. Mary Beard

Faith Me You More Civilisation Than Little Ask Act

One person's barbarity is another person's civilisation. Mary Beard

Civilisation Another Person

When you look at me on the telly and say, 'She should be on 'The Undateables,'' you are looking at a 59-year-old woman. That is what 59-year-old women who have not had work done look like. Get it? Mary Beard

Work Me You Woman Women Looking Say Telly Had Like Look She Get Done Should Who

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

Care Some About Nobody Who Appearance

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

Politics Would Simply Proud Left Very Maverick

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

Day History Job Ancient Day Job Roman Working

Greek myths, early Roman history, is configured around violence against women. And I think we need to get in there, get our hands dirty, face it, and see why and how it was. Mary Beard

History Women Face Think Our See Dirty Myths Around How Greek Get Hands Roman Against Why Early Violence Need

You have to do what you feel comfortable with. Mary Beard

You Feel Comfortable

My mom was born before women had the vote in general elections in England. Mary Beard

Mom Vote Women Before Born General Had Elections England

We are sold the idea of a refugee as a tiny child sitting crying, as a way of raising money, but elderly ladies and kids largely can't move. The demographic is mostly young men. Mary Beard

You always regret upsetting people needlessly. Mary Beard

You People Regret Always Upsetting

However judicious academics may be - not like me - they are all taught to see through crap. Mary Beard

Me See Through Like Academics Judicious However May Taught Crap

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. Mary Beard

You Science School Made Drop Took Latin Fuss Had Like French Boy German Greek Whether Which Much Meant Choose Who Prep Mum Start Early Started

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

People Argue Academic Engage

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. Mary Beard

College Men Completing Colleagues Classics Almost Almost All Couple Returned Cambridge Were Years Office Department After Dorm Teach Earlier University

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. Mary Beard

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. Mary Beard

You Enemies Ideology Thinking Recognise Logically Through Uncomfortable Wrong Look How May Maybe Which Mean Your Helpful Right Coherent

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

Change Hair See Colour Grey Really Should Why

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. Mary Beard

Good You Better Try Past Own Think Strike Worse Out General Recreate Never Idea Successes Your Good Idea

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