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What politicians do is they never get the rhetoric wrong, and the price they pay is they don't speak the truth as they see it. Now, I will speak truth as I see it, and sometimes I don't get the rhetoric right. I think that's a fair trade-off.

~Mary Beard

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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.

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If being a decent soul is being maternal, then fine.

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The web is democratising and also the voice of people who don't think they have another outlet. And that voice can be punitive.

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One of its most powerful weapons has always been 'barbarity': 'we' know that 'we' are civilised by contrasting ourselves with those we deem to be un-civilised, with those who do not - or cannot be trusted to - share our values.

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If you ask me what is civilisation, it's little more than an act of faith.

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One person's barbarity is another person's civilisation.

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

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Barring some sociopaths, probably, there is nobody who doesn't care about their appearance.

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