“For whatever reason, some sorts of women's silence were broken by MeTo...” — Mary Beard Quote

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.

I'd quite like to be in Caligula's court - living in the back room somewhere and just being able to observe.

A lot of people will always say, 'I really know nothing about the ancient world.' But there's lots and lots of things people know. Partly, they've been encouraged to think they're ignorant about it. In some ways, the job to do is show people that they know much more than they'd like to admit.

I've chosen to be this way because that's how I feel comfortable with myself. That's how I am. It's about joining up the dots between how you look and how you feel inside, and I think that's what I've done, and I think people do it differently.

I've always broken out in hives when I go into any organized religious situation.

You find out what you are made of when you have a broken heart. If it happens early and often, all the better.

Washington, D.C. is what is broken, not the immigration policies. We have good laws. We have people suffer every day because of government's failure to enforce the law and be respectful to the process we have. We have a pathway to citizenship already in place.

A lot of the companies that I am inclined to get involved in have a mission to fix something that is 'broken' in the world.

Mostly I do Iyengar. I like anything that's hard enough to make me cry in class. I like to be pushed over my limit and broken down a little bit.