Sandi Toksvig

"I am passionate about higher education and am hugely impressed by Portsmouth's mission to encourage students from every walk of life to excel."

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

"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."

"I think communication should be fun and that we should all worry less about how we say things and more about what we say."

"I was once very unpleasantly groped while I was broadcasting by a famous individual who shall remain nameless. When I told the staff afterwards what had happened, everybody thought it was amusing. There was a shrugged shoulder approach to the whole thing."

"My dad died of a massive heart attack when he was 59, as he didn't look after himself."

"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."

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