Sandi Toksvig Quotes

Well, I think women across Australia, particularly, are a bit fed up with this constant attack and belittling of women in politics, and particularly the role of a female as a prime minister.

You get elected, often, if you're a woman, on the strength of the women's vote; then you get into office, and you have to adapt to an overwhelmingly male environment.

I was not going to attack Palin just for being a woman appealing for support from other women.

When talented, qualified women take on greater responsibility, the simple fact of being talented and qualified is hardly enough to shield them from the gender-specific animosity that will come their way.

People say to me, 'Has being a woman helped or hindered your career?' And the answer is yes.

I'm not saying this is all men, but in my experience as a woman, I'm not taken as seriously in a leadership role regardless of how good I am at what I'm doing.

We still have so far to go as a country. People don't like to listen to women or take orders from them. I feel that a lot as a woman playing music.

I wrote a one-act play - I can't remember the name of it, but it was really about the way women are perceived as leaders. In the play, Catherine the Great would say things like, "You know, John F. Kennedy had extramarital affairs and no one says anything. But I bang one horse and now I'm a horse banger for all eternity? That's it? That's what I am?"

There are still very few companies run by women these days. And, clearly, there are many reasons for that, including what many see as the role of both unconscious bias and outright sexism.

I am convinced that this country is ready to have a woman in the White House, but I also think there's still a lot of hidden sexism.

It's easy to dislike the few senior women out there. What if women were half the positions in power? It would be harder to dislike all of them.

The very qualities that make it harder for women to get elected - not being part of the old boy's network - gives them the advantage of having fresh, and yes, clean faces.

There are things you maybe could get by a male drill instructor that a female instructor absolutely is never going to let you get away with. Women are harder on women.

I don't really care for, like, fat jokes about women, specifically.

Women have more to prove than men when it comes to politics.

It still annoys me when I read really derogatory things about how a woman looks because you would usually not read these things about a man, and that still has the potential to put women off public life.

I don't know why there is a discrimination between women and men entrepreneurs. Those who are doing their job should just be seen as professionals and not women or men.

When men hold the greater majority of all professional positions of power, it is impossible for a woman to advance her career without the support of men.

No woman has ever been an authentic genius of the stature of men, but that does not enrage me.

I think a lot of women are underestimated.

Yes, there are obstacles as a woman; there is no doubt about it.

Whatever women do, they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily, this is not difficult.

Sexism is alive and well! We were saying this forty years ago. I'm an optimist, so I like to think we've progressed in some ways - in Australia, we get equal pay.

I don't understand why or how anyone ever pulled off the whole idea of 'women are inferior.'

It just seems OK these days to throw women under the bus. Like we're a bargaining chip.