Sandi Toksvig Quotes

We are people, individuals comprising a variety of sexes, races, shifting sexualities and all the rest of it. Every convention that tries to reinforce this difference is a step back. Notions of gender pointlessly separate men from women, but also mothers from daughters and fathers from sons.

Although I often find that the feminist rhetoric - not feminism - can come across as simple-minded, self-regarding, nuance-averse and reductive - biology to physiology, history to psychology, procreation to gynecology, and so on - I have come to realize that we should all be feminists.

How can feminism be pro-women without being pro-motherhood? There is nothing more unique about being a woman.

Feminism remains something that needs to be explained to people.

I am most certainly a feminist.

Now my mother, interestingly enough, was not a feminist in her own mind.

I am a humanist not a feminist. There's a big difference.

If you don't have a child, you're not a real woman. I know the ERA people will kill me for saying that.

This is the real problem feminism faces. Too many people are willfully ignorant about what the word means and what the movement aims to achieve.

I don't think if you looked up all the main points of feminism I would tick every one essentially myself.

I think the world is ambivalent about feminism. So I can't blame college students. I think they're reflecting the greater culture's attitude toward feminism. So what I can do is, in ways that are appropriate, advocate for feminism and help the students learn what feminism is about.

Has feminism made us all more conscious? I think it has. Feminist critiques of anthropological masculine bias have been quite important, and they have increased my sensitivity to that kind of issue.

I wouldn't say I'm a feminist, but I don't like girls pretending to be stupid because it's easier.

The woman most in need of liberation is the woman in every man and the man in every woman.

Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the magic and delicious power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.

For some reason, when I think feminism, I think, like, 'Well, you can't include men if you're talking about feminism and being a feminist,' so I get a little bit muddled. I find it to be a bit grey. Then if you say you are not a feminist, that means that you're not pro-woman!

I didn't really understand the concept of feminism until the media started to talk about it surrounding my name.

I think we still have a long way to go in understanding that feminist and femininity are not opposites.

Feminist theory has left an indelible mark on my own critical—and creative—thinking . . . For me, everything I questioned about what it meant to be a man – and how much my sexuality would perpetually challenge those meanings—could be found in arguments posed by feminists. What can I say? I identified.

Patriarchy 101 would have you believe otherwise, but you know - that's just not true. Those inequalities are recipes for resentment. And, yes, the formula isn't perfect yet. We don't all have that. But we're trying.

I had no words for these feelings. And then people started using the word Ms. Suddenly, there was this handle with which I could identify myself and understand why I felt so out of whack with the culture around me.

The notion that somehow women are wildly different infuriates me.

Well, I don't think of myself as a feminist at all. As soon as we start labeling and categorizing ourselves and others, that's going to shut down the world.

I used to forget that I was an Indian woman. I would even forget that I was a woman. I don't think of myself as bringing to the table a lot of 'women's issues.' I don't feel the need to write about maternity. I grew up thinking that the talented people in comedy were hard-joke writers.

I thought it was very important that femininity wasn't lost.