There was a girl I was best friends with at college; I always used to kiss the boys she liked. I’d like to apologise to her. Sara Pascoe Read Quote
Since I was really small, my mum says I wouldn’t talk at breakfast because I would just read the back of the cereal packet. Sara Pascoe Read Quote
I don’t feel like a very feminine woman sometimes. I feel manly. When I was in my twenties I would say I was a masculine girl and now I realise the whole idea of femaleness is a construct. I’m a boyish girl, who talks over people and I do a boyish job. Sara Pascoe Read Quote
The pancreas releases insulin to make you ready for fight or flight when you’re scared. So if you don’t fight or flight – if you stay onstage, telling jokes – then your body stores more fat in your tummy which makes you insulin resistant. All comedians have fat bellies, even if they exercise. Sara Pascoe Read Quote
Bodies have a sex, but gender is a thing we made up, like your star sign or nationality. It doesn’t really say anything about who you are. The destruction of gender binary would free everybody. Sara Pascoe Read Quote
Much of the discussion around how people look at women focuses on culture, as if the media is entirely to blame. As if, without magazines and commenting hosts, we’d all suddenly dress in practical overalls and only judge a person on the quality of their charity work and poetry. Sara Pascoe Read Quote
I used to steal from the library, which is a crime and it’s bad, but I just couldn’t get enough books, and I also didn’t like to give them back once I’d read them. I just read everything. Sara Pascoe Read Quote
I get a fizzy thing in my brain, like a nice glass of wine, and I want to know facts and I want to understand. Sara Pascoe Read Quote
