101 Quotes by Sara Pascoe

While all religious beliefs should be respected, choice is a human right.

I could barely function as an adult; I slept through alarm clocks and lost train tickets mid-journey.

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.

Many of my memories of my mum are of her in the bath with a book, utilising her limited spare time by simultaneously washing and studying. She left school with no qualifications and now has a PhD. If I seem like I am bragging about this, I am.

No success will ever quench your thirst - my rich person's therapist told me that.

The more you learn, the more becomes possible in life.

When you meet a new woman who does stand-up, it is instantly like, 'Yes! In the gang'. Because you know the logistics of the job: they travel a lot, it's lonely in dressing rooms, you know that they have bad gigs. That means they don't have to prove themselves to me.

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.

The only reason you would hate to be compared to 'Fleabag' is if you were said to be 'not as good as Fleabag'.