Quotes by Women Archaeologists

Gertrude Bell

Fred Vargas

Judith Herrin

Gail Carriger

Margaret Benson

Lord Akeldama did so love to know all the gossip about the mundane world, but it was in the manner of a cat amusing himself among the butterflies without a need to interfere should their wings get torn off. They were only butterflies, after all.

At times they are good and quiet company, the dead; they will not interrupt your musings, but when they speak, whether they be Jews or Turks or heathens, they will speak in a tongue all can understand. there are even countries where the moving, breathing people are less intelligible, dwell in a world further apart form you, than that silent population under the earth.

The world of fantasy fills the gaps in people's knowledge.

The only inequalities that matter begin in the mind. It is not income levels but differences in mental equipment that keep people apart, breed feelings of inferiority.

Jacquetta Hawkes

Nobody is such a fool as to moider away his time in the slip-slop conversation of a pack of women.

Lady Hester Stanhope

All progress in knowledge takes place through the correction of that which has been received on authority.

Margaret Benson

The simplest kind of decision is binary: that is, the question can be answered, in principle at least, by either yes or no.

Elizabeth Wayland Barber

A whole range of activities remained largely unregulated, spontaneously generating separate forms of organisation, and existing independently of any consecrated 'official' To overlook the extent of private initiative would be to ignore a major impulse to early Christian expansion. In homes, whole families adopted a style of life modelled on the Apostles...