Sandi Toksvig quotes

“When I was a student at Cambridge I remember an anthropology professor holding up a picture of a bone with 28 incisions carved in it. "This is often considered to be man's first attempt at a calendar" she explained. She paused as we dutifully wrote this down. 'My question to you is this - what man needs to mark 28 days? I would suggest to you that this is woman's first attempt at a calendar. It was a moment that changed my life. In that second I stopped to question almost everything I had been taught about the past. How often had I overlooked women's contributions?”
-- Sandi Toksvig

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“I always wanted to open a delicatessen in Jerusalem and call it 'Cheeses of Nazareth'.”
-- Sandi Toksvig

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“I like frogs. I am not crazy about their legs in a buffet, but I like their casual approach to life.”
-- Sandi Toksvig

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“A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.”

Source : Quoted in Philip Henry Stanhope, Notes of Conversations with the Duke of Wellington (1888) (entry for 3 Nov. 1831) See Francis Bacon 7; Montaigne 4; Franklin Roosevelt 6; Thoreau 16

“I want in all cases to do right.”

“In my opinion, most of the great men of the past were only there for the beer - the wealth, prestige and grandeur that went with the power.”

“The present enables us to understand the past, not the other way round.”

Source : "The Trouble Makers: Dissent over Foreign Policy, 1792-1939". Book by A. J. P. Taylor, 1957.

“I see my body as an instrument, rather than an ornament.”

“My mother was a feminist and a divorcee who worked. She was very smart.”

Source : "Danica McKellar, Olivia d’Abo and Alley Mills Talk THE WONDER YEARS, How the Show Impacted Their Lives, and the 23 Hours of Bonus Features on the DVD". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. September 23, 2014.

“The belief that female sexual expression is uniquely dehumanizing is a double standard, no matter how much you dress it up in feminist language. Instead of condemning young women for the length of their skirts, why not use that energy for condemning anyone who would think that a woman is lesser-than because she wears a miniskirt?”

“Under patriarchy, every woman's son is her potential betrayer and also the inevitable rapist or exploiter of another woman.”

“Families make possible the super-exploitation of women by training them to look upon their work outside the home as peripheral to their 'true' role.”

“...In every realm of male expression and action, violence is experienced and articulated as love and freedom.”