Sandi Toksvig Quotes

The problem is with men. I know I shouldn't say this, but they've shrouded and hidden women to hide their incompetence.

I never say 'nagging.' I think that 'nagging' is a term that men created to get women to pipe down some. But, it's a trap that we've created. We created several terms for women to back you down. Nagging means to stop asking me questions, then we get away with more. I think it's a term men created.

One of the things I haven't been ready for is how male-dominated the music industry is. I just didn't have a clue.

God as 'He,' as a patriarchal thing, is offensive to me. It's standard fare for America, 'He, He, He.' Every time I hear that it's like another blow against females. It's very radical talk at this point for females to say this kind of stuff, but nationwide I still hear females referring to God as 'He.'

There aren't good roles for women: the female parts aren't developed: the women are serving the men.

The woman who is known only through a man is known wrong.

It is odd there are many movies with many men. But generally movies have one woman, or maybe the older woman and the younger girl.

I don't like the fact that there are so few women in rap.

I love playing video games, but I'm regularly disappointed in the limited and limiting ways women are represented.

You can't be a strong or cool woman and be represented except in a harsh way, looking mean and cold and hard. It's like reverse sexism.

[Concerning] the promotion of women. The system was designed by men and I am told constantly that "we have no women who are ready yet " for promotion. I can break that through perseverance—but it is an example of the system frustrating our purposes rather than serving them.

Far too often, I read a script where the girls are the girlfriend or the set dressing.

So many times, you get sent scripts where it's, like, the token chick, where the woman is just there to serve the man in the film.

The government at all levels is overly represented by white men. That's part of the problem, and I'm a white man.

If there's ever a woman who's smart, funny, or witty, people are afraid of that, so they don't write that. They only write parts for women where they let everything be steamrolled over them, where they let people wipe their feet all over them.

As income inequality increases, the social and political sway of those at the very, very top grows, too. They are nearly all men, and men whose lived experience tells them that women, for whatever reason, just don't have what it takes.

Misogyny is at the reptilian brain stem of a lot of right-wing politics.

I've become aware of being in a very male-dominated industry where a door opens and it's like, 'Oh hello, it's 12 men and me. Again.'

Why is it when a woman makes a film or a movie stars a female cast it is labeled women-centric because it is not white, male and middle-class men?

I think as soon as you're a woman, or any minority doing something, you automatically become a representative for it, and I think a lot of brilliant women's interviews are being wasted on talking about what it's like being a woman.

Have you noticed that they write parts for mute women but not for mute men? It must be a masculine dream: a woman who can feel and hear but not talk!

There are still men in the professional or behind the scenes world that are controlling women to build credibility.

It doesn't matter how many women we get into game production. If the only people evaluating the work we do continue to be men, women's voices will never be heard.

Everywhere I went, people would tell me that trap and reggaeton was for men, not women. I wasn't being taken seriously, and I was often being told to do something else.

I wasn't taken seriously being the only girl playing in band growing up.