Quotes from Sandi Toksvig

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.

I haven't the energy to despise anyone.

I had tried every diet out there - I would lose weight for a bit, then put it back on again.

Mostly, I'm totally happy in my own space at home with the door closed with my family and friends.

I get in a temper with inanimate objects. I can't bear plastic. I do get in a complete rage with something that's been shrink-wrapped.

I like frogs. I am not crazy about their legs in a buffet, but I like their casual approach to life.

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

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

I wish I was fitter.

I certainly wouldn't want to be a Mini Me of any of the people whose footsteps I've followed in.

When I came out in September 1994, I was, as far as I know, the only out lesbian in British public life.

You can go anywhere in the world, and people's faces light up when they put delicious food in their mouths.

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

One of my life's watchwords is 'hyggelig.' It's an untranslatable Danish term for getting together with friends and family and sitting around in a cosy atmosphere with nice food and wine and candles.

Too often, there are complaints in the British papers about the BBC. It's too left wing, too right wing, too pro-Brexit, too anti, and so on. It's only when you go abroad and try to find out what is going on in the world that everyone falls with gratitude before the BBC News.

The problem with money issued by any government is that its only value is what those in charge decree.

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 cash. I don't like the idea of some distant clerk nodding each time I make a card purchase and quietly adding to my 'consumer profile.' I'm anti all cards.

Cheryl Cole is one of the few incredibly famous people who still seems to say what they think. I really like that; plus, I do fancy her quite a bit.

'The News Quiz' is one of the things I am proudest of in my professional life.

I don't think secrets are a good thing. I think they are a cancer of the soul. So I decided to come out.

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 don't know a lot about mountaineering. I once went walking in the Lake District with the legendary climber Chris Bonington and had to have emergency physio afterwards to regain sensation in my thighs.

People say, 'When did you decide you were gay?' and you think, 'When did you decide you were heterosexual?' It's not a decision: it's something you gradually begin to realise about yourself.

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