Mary Beard(II)

She was awarded the OBE (Officer of the Order of the British Empire) in the 2013 Queen's New Years Honours list for her services to Classical Scholarship. She is the Professor of Classics at the University of Cambridge in Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England.

Most women over 50 know what women over 50 look like. And they look like me. They can pretend like they don't, but really they look like me. I'm a classicist, not an autocue girl.