A biography for Sandi Toksvighasn’t been written yet.
“If you play-act for a living, it's better not to carry on doing it when you get home.”
“I always wanted to get married. I was very drawn to the idea of a partner with whom you went through life, a mate who was always in your corner.”
“I'm quite a shy person, and I dislike narcissism intensely.”
“Oh my God, don't ever start a political party. It's exhausting.”
“I certainly wouldn't want to be a Mini Me of any of the people whose footsteps I've followed in.”
“I'm ashamed to say, I've done hideous pen portraits of people I don't like in my novels. And they'll say, 'Oh, that person was hideous,' and I'm nodding, and I'm thinking, 'It's you, you fool!'”
“I know we don't all follow in the family footsteps, but you are, I suppose, more likely to consider becoming a butcher if you have spent your childhood watching a parent debone a pig.”
“I'm political in the sense that there's much to be done, but I'm apolitical in the sense that I don't think there's a party that represents anything I believe in.”
“I haven't got the patience for small talk, although I once saw a woman standing on her own in the corner, and I realised it was Monica Lewinsky, and I had the nicest evening with her - she was charming.”
“Endless books claim that the brains of men and women are wired differently. They have titles such as 'Why Men Don't Iron' and set out to convince us that women are somehow biologically suited to getting the creases out of clothes while men peruse maps.”
“I'm slightly obsessed with women's history, so I'd love to talk to Emily Dickinson or Louisa May Alcott.”
“I think communication should be fun and that we should all worry less about how we say things and more about what we say.”
“My life won't have full quality until we achieve equality for all.”
“I'd love to be a joiner or a wood turner.”
“I would not be able to keep going at the pace that I do if I had continued at the weight that I was. I feel so much better; I eat better. I sleep better. I actually enjoy exercise.”
“You can't complain or have a say if you don't vote.”
“I have a son and two daughters, and I care equally about all three of them, and I want the world to be a better place for all of them.”
“With my daughters, it didn't matter how much it was not my thing, we went through two truly horrible pink phases. I bought an awful lot of Barbie rubbish, and it was a great day when I was allowed to send Barbie's house to the skip. That was one of the best days of my life.”
“The truth is I have never been any good at sport, OK?”
“When my three children were little, I took them to Rome. On our way to our destination, we went to see the Colosseum and returned to the car to find everything had been stolen. Trying to buy everything for a week, including clothing for three small, very tired children, was a low point in my life.”