“The building blocks of discrimination tend to be similar wherever you ...” — Mary Beard Quote

“The building blocks of discrimination tend to be similar wherever you find them.”

“There is no way, absolutely no way, that I would want people to stop reading the 'Odyssey.' But I want them to read it with their eyes open. To notice it and then to think what it says about us.”

“Gender is a key marker of power and powerlessness. Most of the structures of how our world works are biased in terms of men.”

“They had the music being piped right out on the street. I'd be three or four blocks from there and I couldn't get there fast enough because I'd hear old Joe holler them words.”

“Despite the laserlike focus it generates, 'Tetris' has no clear endpoint and no easily defined opponents. Unlike with most other video games, you're playing only against yourself, without any concrete goals other than to keep on fitting blocks into other blocks.”

“I had mates who lived in tower blocks and I always hated seeing them, because of the lifts, y'know? My God, so scary.”