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People who exploit others come to spend an enormous amount of energy wondering about and justifying that exploitation.

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

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We lived in the schoolhouse of the village school in Church Preen, in deepest Shropshire, and my mum was the schoolmistress. She taught the juniors, and one other teacher taught the infants. I went there from the age of three, no doubt as a form of childcare.

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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.

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If talking about arts means being pretentious, a bit like being a wine critic, then I don't feel comfy with that. You can get a lot from paintings without getting mystical about brush strokes.

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At 16, I got into local-education archaeology classes - you got to go to summer digs. It allowed me to be both intellectual and a bad girl with a wicked social life every evening!

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Beard's secret is always to be slightly on the edge but to pull back from disaster at the last minute.

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All religions throughout history have been concerned about - and have sometimes fought over - what it means to represent God, and they have found elegant, intriguing, and awkward ways to confront that dilemma.

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It's a bit naff, but there is something exciting about pulling a bit of pottery out of the ground that's 2,000 years old.

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When it comes to silencing women, Western culture has had thousands of years of practice.

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