Sandi Toksvig

For three months, when I was 23 years old, I worked as a clerk at Wandsworth Sewer.

— Sandi Toksvig

The number one thing in my whole life is my children, and I want to be there for them.

— Sandi Toksvig

When people say, 'There aren't enough women on panel shows,' the answer is to make the host a woman.

— Sandi Toksvig

I always wanted to open a delicatessen in Jerusalem and call it 'Cheeses of Nazareth'.

— Sandi Toksvig

I'm trying to get my kids - in particular, my step-daughter Mary, who's 12 - to recommend music to me. You reach…

— Sandi Toksvig

I can't live without Radio 4. It's worth the entire licence fee. I'm an obsessive listener; I get up, and Radio 4…

— Sandi Toksvig

I decided that instead of making jokes about politics, I need to take part in it, and therefore, I can't make jokes…

— Sandi Toksvig

I cannot lie on the beach or by a swimming pool. I think I'm too Nordic to like a lot of relentless…

— Sandi Toksvig

I will try anything that doesn't involve a leotard.

— Sandi Toksvig

At my worst, I was a size 22, and at that size, you can't go down the high street and buy yourself…

— Sandi Toksvig

People say, 'When did you decide you were gay?' and you think, 'When did you decide you were heterosexual?' It's not a…

— Sandi Toksvig

I was born gay, OK? I've always known. I don't think my family were the least bit surprised.

— Sandi Toksvig

I have a son and two daughters, and I care equally about all three of them, and I want the world to…

— Sandi Toksvig

I'd love to be a joiner or a wood turner.

— Sandi Toksvig

Us Danes have amazing pastries, but we're not a fat nation.

— Sandi Toksvig

What I think is if the world is in some difficulty - about climate change, about economics - then we had better…

— Sandi Toksvig

My ambition is to stop showing off. I'd love to be a tweedy academic. I'd be happy living in a croft. I…

— Sandi Toksvig

There was a really long period of time when, if the newspapers ever referred to me, even if I was talking about,…

— Sandi Toksvig

It was actually having a son made me think about feminism.

— Sandi Toksvig

I don't know a lot about mountaineering. I once went walking in the Lake District with the legendary climber Chris Bonington and…

— Sandi Toksvig

I always wanted to get married. I was very drawn to the idea of a partner with whom you went through life,…

— Sandi Toksvig

The truth is I don't really like the world of plastic money: the great chip-and-pin double act of modern payment. I prefer…

— Sandi Toksvig

Being attracted to my own sex was as much part of who I was as being short or blonde or drawn to…

— Sandi Toksvig

If you play-act for a living, it's better not to carry on doing it when you get home.

— Sandi Toksvig

Don't climb into a fridge. That's my advice.

— Sandi Toksvig