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Sandi Toksvig (born 3 May 1958) is a British-Danish comedian and TV presenter born in Copenhagen, though long resident in the UK. Toksvig co-founded the Women's Equality Party in 2015 with Catherine Mayer.
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I don't want anybody to say to me, 'I'm fine with it, I accept you.' You think, wow, thanks so much, because if you hadn't I would have killed myself.
[Guests have been asked to say their favourite thing about Denmark].
[On teaching her children to have good manners.] It's mainly because I wanted to send them out in the world and have everybody like them.
When the feminist movement started in the 60s and 70s, lesbians were often excluded, because we were told that we would make the movement less palatable. I have been excluded myself, so how could I do that to someone else?
There are only two countries in the world where representatives of the state religion automatically get a seat in the legislature: the UK and Iran. Obviously, there are fundamental differences between the two countries and in the religious representatives’ views, but it is symbolic all the same. How can it be that our democratic system draws parallels with an Islamic theocracy?