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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

“Smoke a bowl and you can do this for hours,” one of the guys says. “Just kidding. No drugs in the major leagues.” As we cut the clay, there are no bowls to smoke—though according to one sod farm worker, weed goes well with anything turf-related: “You can’t be a grass man and not be a grass man,” he says—but there is an easy intimacy among the crew, a kind of in-this-together camaraderie, and for a few minutes I feel like one of them, too.”
― Rafi Kohan, The Arena: Inside the Tailgating, Ticket-Scalping, Mascot-Racing, Dubiously Funded, and Possibly Haunted Monuments of American Sport

“Just keep mum and “block” them’ you’re told.”
― Mary Beard, Women & Power: A Manifesto

“to become a man (or at least an elite man) was to claim the right to speak.”
― Mary Beard, Women & Power: A Manifesto