Sandi Toksvig

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

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

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.

My life won't have full quality until we achieve equality for all.

The fact is, there is not now, nor has there ever been in the whole of history, a single country in the world where women have equality with men.

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

Oh my God, don't ever start a political party. It's exhausting.

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 have to say, I have to tell you that my kids had a most marvelous time having two moms. When my daughter was at university, she got flu. And both mums rushed to be with her. And we were both looking after her and making soup and tidying up. And one of her friends came in and went, 'Two mums? Not fair.'

I'm trying to get my kids - in particular, my step-daughter Mary, who's 12 - to recommend music to me. You reach a certain age and realise you haven't kept up, but I don't want to fall behind.

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.