Sandi Toksvig Quotes

Those philosophers who believe in the absolute logic of truth have never had to discuss it on close terms with a woman.

Women have always been an equal part of the past. We just havent been a part of history.

A woman's biography - with about eight famous historical exceptions - so often turns out to be the story of a man and the woman who helped his career.

No woman is really an insider in the institutions fathered by masculine consciousness.

The savage and women are not what we call intellectual because they are not taught to know and manipulate the materials of knowledge.

We need to feminise history because we are 50 per cent of the population, and our story is just as interesting.

When I sat down to make a list of characters in history who exhibited curiosity, most were women. I thought it was sheer accident, and then I began to wonder.

Women often get dropped from memory, and then history.

The volumes which record the history of the human race are filled with the deeds and the words of great men ... [but] The Twentieth Century Woman ... questions the completeness of the story.

I’m very feminist in the way I look at the world, and that worldview must somehow be part of my work.

Where young boys plan for what they will achieve and attain, young girls plan for whom they will achieve and attain.

There were too many idiot men in the world, to her way of thinking. And most of them ended up bumping up against stubborn women.

I think women dwell quite a bit on the duress under which they work, on how hard it is just to do it at all. We are traditionally rather proud of ourselves for having slipped creative work in there between the domestic chores and obligations. I'm not sure we deserve such big A-pluses for all that.

A lot of men got upset at the feminist movement because they had all the toys and we wanted some.

The truth has never been told about women in history: that everywhere man has gone woman has gone too, and what he has done she has done also. Women are ignorant of their own past and ignorant of their own importance in that past.

The societies to which I have been exposed seemed to me largely machines for the suppression of women.

Nobody objects to a woman being a good writer or sculptor or geneticist if at the same time she manages to be a good wife, a good mother, good-looking, good-tempered, well-dressed, well-groomed, and unaggressive.

Women's studies is a comfy, chummy morass of unchallenged groupthink . It is, with rare exception, totally unscholarly. Academic feminists have silenced men and dissenting women.

I'm glad that we have a history at all and that we can talk about feminist history. But I do think that it doesn't really pay attention to the complexity and the nuance that is feminist thought.

There is one common condition for the lot of women in Western civilization and all other civilizations that we know about for certain, and that is, woman as a sex is disliked and persecuted, while as an individual she is liked, loved, and even, with reasonable luck, sometimes worshipped.

I'm always a little unnerved when I see a show that's set in the past that implies in any way that things were nicer then.

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.

I had been a feminist all my life, but the big problem was how to make your feminism jibe with you unappeasable hunger for male bodies.

Of all things upon earth that bleed and grow, a herb most bruised is woman.

Refuse to accept the narrative of history laid down by presidents, prime ministers, generals and journalists.