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• ‟ We have never escaped a certain male cultural desire for women's silence.

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• ‟ One of the downsides of working in antiquity is that you don't have many female voices, but you certainly have a lot of male terror about the potential of women's power. It shows you very clearly that the most oppressive cultures tend to be afraid of those whom they oppress.

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• ‟ You cannot easily fit women into a structure that is already coded as male; you have to change the structure.

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• ‟ When you look at me on the telly and say, 'She should be on 'The Undateables,'' you are looking at a 59-year-old woman. That is what 59-year-old women who have not had work done look like. Get it?

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• ‟ 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?

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• ‟ I have always thought the women's movement traded too much on outrage and not enough on ridicule.

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• ‟ I don't want to see a world in which women can communicate on Twitter, but their actual voices are not heard.

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• ‟ It wasn't until I got to Cambridge that I discovered active discrimination against women.

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• ‟ No women in ancient Rome ever had the vote.

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• ‟ For whatever reason, some sorts of women's silence were broken by MeToo. This is the optimistic bit. And that will lead to a much more careful attention to women's voices.

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• ‟ I'm not in the slightest wanting to attack the women's movement here. But I think that in popular, broadly left-wing, broadly feminist discourse, there is a tendency to just label discrimination against women - and embedded assumptions about them - as misogyny and think 'job done.'

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