Sandi Toksvig Quotes

The law sees and treats women the way men see and treat women.

When anything goes, it's women who lose.

Men have not stacked the decks against women.

You know, it's a very sexist society, Indonesia.

I've never felt like a woman fighting in a male world; I've never felt penalised.

True gender equality in Scotland - and elsewhere - is still some way off.

Eventually I figured out there was something systematic in the way women are treated.

Women are obviously much more discriminated against than men in many ways.

Women have to stand up to tremendous discriminatory practices, whether inherited traditions, whether imposed norms, male perceptions of power and control. The women always have to go through that and cannot take any privilege for granted.

The discrimination of women and girls goes to the core of any and all analyses of the world's economic, political, and environmental problems.

I think there are fundamental power imbalances between the sexes that play themselves out in society. And I think science is just not immune to that - which actually isn't a very controversial stance if you think about it.

Gender inequality is not one problem, it's a collection of problems.

Men don't have the benefits of equality either.

I grew up in a time when many people believed that men and women should not always be treated equally.

Women have talent and intelligence but, due to social constraints and prejudices, it is still a long distance away from the goal of gender equality.

I never realized until lately that women were supposed to be the inferior sex.

I want my books to force readers to recognise the fact that a woman is a human being just like them.

Men have as exaggerated an idea of their rights as women have of their wrongs.

People ask me why I'm so hard on men. It's because they've gotten a really easy ride. And it's not that I think women should take over the world. But I do think it should be 50/50.

I don't know why it's still a taboo to be a feminist.

I feel like a feminist is gender equality.

Now, since I'm a husband and father, discrimination against women isn't just political, it's personal.

Women are born, living their lives, and dying without the justice which they have been waiting for since the time of the caveman.

What women by nature cannot do, it is quite superfluous to forbid them from doing. What they can do, but not so well as the men who are their competitors, competition suffices to exclude them from; since nobody asks for protective duties and bounties in favor of women; it is only asked that the present bounties and protective duties in favor of men should be recalled.

Women are not by nature inferior to men...