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Mary Beard
“These attitudes, assumptions and prejudices are hard-wired into us: not into our brains (there is no neurological reason for us to hear low-pitched voices as more authoritative than high-pitched ones), but into our culture, our language and millennia of our history.”
Mary Beard, Women & Power: A Manifesto

Mary Beard
“We have to be more reflective about what power is, what it is for, and how it is measured. To put it another way, if women are not perceived to be fully within the structures of power, surely it is power that we need to redefine rather than women?”
Mary Beard, Women & Power: A Manifesto

Mary Beard
“What I mean is that public speaking and oratory were not merely things that ancient women didn’t do: they were exclusive practices and skills that defined masculinity as a gender.”
Mary Beard, Women & Power: A Manifesto

Mary Beard
“if women are not perceived to be fully within the structures of power, surely it is power that we need to redefine rather than women?”
Mary Beard, Women & Power: A Manifesto

Mary Beard
“For a start it doesn’t much matter what line you take as a woman, if you venture into traditional male territory, the abuse comes anyway. It is not what you say that prompts it, it’s simply the fact that you’re saying it. And that matches the detail of the threats themselves”
Mary Beard, Women & Power: A Manifesto

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