Mary Beard Quotes
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I'm actually in a tradition of classicists with a big public face who like sounding off.
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I'd quite like to be in Caligula's court - living in the back room somewhere and just being able to observe.
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My mother took me to the British Museum aged five. I had thought people from the past weren't as good as we were, and then I saw the Elgin marbles. Suddenly, the world seemed more complicated.
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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.