If you view history as a backdrop, set-dressing or fiction, then 'Pride and Prejudice' is hugely entertaining. My reread saw the misery of the female characters' reality. My new reaction was sadness and fury. Knowledge ruins everything! — Sara Pascoe Copy Share Image
A show that I loved as a kid was 'Maid Marian And Her Merry Men'. It was a really strong female character making fun of the boys, an inversion of gender politics. But it was very funny, too. I always… — Sara Pascoe Copy Share Image
I wrote on my website that veganism isn't right for everyone and the first thing you have to consider is nutrition. I was saying… — Sara Pascoe Copy Share
There's nothing you can't tell to an audience, because they're all people who've had lives. The only thing they don't want to watch is… — Sara Pascoe Copy Share
I thought all comedy was stupid. I went to watch a friend do stand-up and I thought absolutely everyone was terrible. — Sara Pascoe Copy Share
Someone who didn't do comedy might think it was awful to have someone talking about you. But I just love the attention, even if… — Sara Pascoe Copy Share
“Suddenly, an idea swooshed into his marsupial brain like a small propeller plane buzzing a crowd. ‘Why didn’t I think of that?” — Sara Pascoe Copy Share
“What’s “ague?”‘ Raya asked. ‘Malaria.’ Oscar said. ‘Oh, great.’ ‘Hey, you want plague? They got that too.’ Raya ignored the cat.” — Sara Pascoe Copy Share
Extensive analysis was conducted before deciding whether consumers would respond better to a male or female imprisoned in their phone. Almost every country in… — Sara Pascoe Copy Share
“The light inside houses was always so golden yellow. Oswald wondered if humans saved up sunshine and piped it through their lamps.” — Sara Pascoe Copy Share
I could barely function as an adult; I slept through alarm clocks and lost train tickets mid-journey. — Sara Pascoe Copy Share
It's unfair but true: youth is attractive, curvy women are attractive, outliers who look a bit different to everybody else are attractive. — Sara Pascoe Copy Share
When I was little, I wore shoes that were too small for me for years, so my feet grew weird, so my little toenails… — Sara Pascoe Copy Share
The Apollo seats 3,600 people: I could hear them making a huge noise for Milton Jones and Lee Mack. If the audience doesn't make… — Sara Pascoe Copy Share
Standup is a place where, as long as it's funny enough, you can say your most embarrassing things, shameful things and disappointing things. — Sara Pascoe Copy Share
Much of the discussion around how people look at women focuses on culture, as if the media is entirely to blame. As if, without… — Sara Pascoe Copy Share
When I was a small child we were allowed to wait up until midnight on 31 December. Then as the TV chimed, Dad would… — Sara Pascoe Copy Share
