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

“Those reasons are much more basic: it is flagrantly unjust to keep women out, by whatever unconscious means we do so; and we simply cannot afford to do without women’s expertise, whether it is in technology, the economy or social care. If that means fewer men get into the legislature, as it must do – social change always has its losers as well as its winners – I am happy to look those men in the eye.”
― Mary Beard, Women & Power: A Manifesto

“It means thinking collaboratively, about the power of followers not just of leaders. It means,”
― 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