Sara Pascoe

I didn't watch TV in the 90s and early 00s. I was too busy trying to grow out a fringe and perm.

— Sara Pascoe

Growing older has helped me become empathetic to other people and their reasons for making choices. I used to think there was…

— Sara Pascoe

It sounds like a brag but I've got a separate room in my flat just for unread books; I don't let my…

— Sara Pascoe

Since I was really small, my mum says I wouldn't talk at breakfast because I would just read the back of the…

— Sara Pascoe

“Normal' is a concept formed by averages but it changes with education and tolerance.”

— Sara Pascoe

My earliest food memory is being starving hungry after swimming. I think that's quite common with children: the second you're out of…

— Sara Pascoe

Pride and Prejudice' is set in the early 19th century. At that time, women had the legal status of children. A daughter…

— Sara Pascoe

If you view history as a backdrop, set-dressing or fiction, then 'Pride and Prejudice' is hugely entertaining. My reread saw the misery…

— Sara Pascoe

No success will ever quench your thirst - my rich person's therapist told me that.

— Sara Pascoe

If we accept ourselves as animals, and have empathy and tolerance, compassion to others, understand that humans are territorial, aggressive and have…

— Sara Pascoe

“I have decided it's my mind that's woman. It's my narrator. It's my relationship to myself, and oddly, nothing at all to…

— Sara Pascoe

Ten years ago, I went to visit my dad in Australia. I walked to the edge of a cliff and looked over…

— Sara Pascoe

I would have been an essayist in the 18th century. Maybe I'd have had one gag in the piece, but essentially I'd…

— Sara Pascoe

“The summer sun bowing out threw slashes of colour between the buildings. London looked big, empty, and lonely. She stood in the…

— Sara Pascoe

I became a vegetarian at seven. I went on a school trip to a farm and loved the animals.

— Sara Pascoe

I was always obsessed with ancient Egypt, but any time you go back to wouldn't be as good for women as now…

— Sara Pascoe

When I was 14, I auditioned for Michael Barrymore's 'My Kind Of People'.

— Sara Pascoe

Worse than useless, I worry e-petitions are detrimental, with their sense of catharsis and mini-activism. Channelling away agitation, giving us the opportunity…

— Sara Pascoe

I honestly believe true happiness lies in lowered expectations. In opening the door to let the air in.

— Sara Pascoe

The cliche of call-centre work is that it's mainly older people who will stay on the line to talk to you. Whether…

— Sara Pascoe

I used to steal from the library, which is a crime and it's bad, but I just couldn't get enough books, and…

— Sara Pascoe

I wanted the audience to write stories and then read them out if they wanted to. It's always the best part of…

— Sara Pascoe

The only reason you would hate to be compared to 'Fleabag' is if you were said to be 'not as good as…

— Sara Pascoe

I've been an actor since I was 18. So that's my proper job. But I was not a very successful actor, if…

— Sara Pascoe

As an adult, my hero is my dog, Mouse. He is so friendly to everyone he meets. He wags his tail and…

— Sara Pascoe