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I receive something we might euphemistically call an 'inappropriately hostile' response - that is to say, more than fair criticism or even fair anger - every time I speak on radio or television.
— Mary Beard
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Mary Beard
historian of religion, university teacher, television presenter, classical philologist
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Dame Winifred Mary Beard is an English classicist specialising in Ancient Rome. She is a trustee of the British Museum and formerly held a personal professorship of classics at the University of Cambridge. She is a fellow of Newnham College, Cambridge, and Royal Academy of Arts Professor of Ancient Literature.
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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.
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You cannot easily fit women into a structure that is already coded as male; you have to change the structure.
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Democracy requires information. Plato knew that informed decision-making requires knowledge.
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You cannot easily fit women into a structure that is already coded as male; you have to change the structure.
— Mary Beard