Sandi Toksvig famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.
I want in all cases to do right.
In my opinion, most of the great men of the past were only there for the beer - the wealth, prestige and grandeur that went with the power.
The present enables us to understand the past, not the other way round.
I see my body as an instrument, rather than an ornament.
My mother was a feminist and a divorcee who worked. She was very smart.
The belief that female sexual expression is uniquely dehumanizing is a double standard, no matter how much you dress it up in feminist language. Instead of condemning young women for the length of their skirts, why not use that energy for condemning anyone who would think that a woman is lesser-than because she wears a miniskirt?
Under patriarchy, every woman's son is her potential betrayer and also the inevitable rapist or exploiter of another woman.
Families make possible the super-exploitation of women by training them to look upon their work outside the home as peripheral to their 'true' role.
...In every realm of male expression and action, violence is experienced and articulated as love and freedom.

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