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“(In the Afghan parliament, apparently, they disconnect the mics when they don’t want to hear the women speak).”
― Mary Beard, Women & Power: A Manifesto

“Other classical writers insisted that the tone and timbre of women’s speech always threatened to subvert not just the voice of the male orator but also the social and political stability, the health, of the whole state.”
― Mary Beard, Women & Power: A Manifesto

“first recorded example of a man telling a woman to ‘shut up’;”
― Mary Beard, Women & Power: A Manifesto

“tailgating is a local tradition that both predates Lambeau Field and dovetails seamlessly with another beloved Green Bay pastime: drinking. Even Prohibition couldn’t slow the town’s taps. “There were speakeasies all over,” says the historian. “I was told once that one of the reasons the mob never moved in here was because it was so wide open. They couldn’t get a foothold. It was just generally accepted that Green Bay wasn’t going to obey the Eighteenth Amendment.”
― Rafi Kohan, The Arena: Inside the Tailgating, Ticket-Scalping, Mascot-Racing, Dubiously Funded, and Possibly Haunted Monuments of American Sport