Quotes by Mary Beard

• It is grievous to read the papers in most respects, I agree. More and more I skim the headlines only, for one can be sure what is carried beneath them quite automatically, if one has long been a reader of the press journalism.
• The dogma of woman's complete historical subjection to men must be rated as one of the most fantastic myths ever created by the human mind.
• Those who sit at the feast will continue to enjoy themselves even though the veil that separates them from the world of toiling reality below has been lifted by mass revolts and critics.
• Viewed narrowly, all life is universal hunger and an expression of energy associated with it.