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.

If women are not perceived to be fully within the structures of power, surely it is power that we need to redefine rather than women?

You cannot easily fit women into a structure that is already coded as male; you have to change the structure.

Mary Beard Quotes