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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

Mary Beard
“How have we learned to look at those women who exercise power, or who try to? What are the cultural underpinnings of misogyny in politics or the workplace, and its forms (what kind of misogyny, aimed at what or whom, using what words or images, and with what effects)? How and why do the conventional definitions of ‘power’ (or for that matter of ‘knowledge’, ‘expertise’ and ‘authority’) that we carry round in our heads exclude women?”
Mary Beard, Women & Power: A Manifesto

Mary Beard
“How do I get my point heard? How do I get it noticed? How do I get to belong in the discussion? I am sure it is something some men feel too, but if there’s one thing that bonds women of all backgrounds, of all political colours, in all kinds of business and profession, it is the classic experience of the failed intervention; you’re at a meeting, you make a point, then a short silence follows, and after a few awkward seconds some man picks up where he had just left off: ‘What I was saying was …’ You might as well never have opened your mouth, and you end up blaming both yourself and the men whose exclusive club the discussion appears to be.”
Mary Beard, Women & Power: A Manifesto

Mary Beard
“Women in power are seen as breaking down barriers, or alternatively as taking something to which they are not quite entitled.”
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

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