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However judicious academics may be - not like me - they are all taught to see through crap.

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I'm very interested in how people in the 19th century travelled to Greece.

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I was 11 when I started Latin - not like boys, who start early at prep school. At 14, you had to choose whether to start Greek and drop German, but my mum made a fuss, and I took Latin, Greek, French, and German at O-level, which meant I didn't do much science.

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I was into Black Power, and my practice Oxbridge essay was a rant. The headmistress said I'd never get in with that, but she was probably wrong. I was the ideal combination: a swot who was also a bad girl.

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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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I'm an academic. I argue; I engage with people.

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Fate has it in for me to be an exhibit: that funny old lady from the telly.

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In 1984, I returned to Newnham College at Cambridge University to teach after completing my Ph.D. there a couple of years earlier. Almost all of my colleagues in the university's classics department were men, and my office at the all-women's college was in the dorm.

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I do not think that the lives of women of my generation, as a class, were blighted by the way the power differentials between men and women operated. We wanted to change those power differentials; we also had a good time.

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There is no argument that I won't take seriously.

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