Top 60 Sara Pascoe Quotes (2026 Update)

1. “I have money now, I never have to speak to anyone I don’t want to, and I love it. What money has bought me is freedom, and I never forget it.”

— Sara Pascoe

2. “What I find most troubling is the recent expectation for sudden weight loss after pregnancy. It’s perverse that the finest compliment given to a woman who has just made a person is that she looks like she hasn’t.”

— Sara Pascoe

3. “If you would like some chat to ruin any party’s vibe, research dowry deaths and bride burning. Thousands of women are murdered every year because the father who ‘owns’ them does not pay enough to their new keeper.”

— Sara Pascoe

4. “But maybe all of us understanding more about why bad things happen can help us stop them?”

— Sara Pascoe

5. “Birds are monogamous because their young require the input of two parents. This isn’t romance, it’s evolutionary necessity.”

— Sara Pascoe

6. “Even though it’s only a minority of men who are violent or predatory, I don’t know if men realise that girls are trained our entire lives to minimise the danger from you – and blamed if we don’t.”

— Sara Pascoe

7. “You cannot give somebody permission to force you to do things, any more than you can allow yourself to be overpowered.”

— Sara Pascoe

8. “But I can remember how grown-up I felt then, and earlier, since about nine. Because we age one way, in one direction, every age we are is the most grown-up we’ve ever been.”

— Sara Pascoe

9. “Any time you see the word ‘detox’ someone is trying to sell you absolute waste-of-time crap. Your.”

— Sara Pascoe

10. “So you’re unique and unusual, well done, now pop off and eat your banana.”

— Sara Pascoe

11. “When studies examining gender differences don’t reflect my experience I sigh to myself, ‘Must be a man then, what with my masculine reaction,’ rather than remembering that it’s only ever a small sample being extrapolated from.”

— Sara Pascoe

12. “I can’t imagine a young man being told not to dress a certain way because a homosexual person might find them sexy. In those instances, the target of the attraction would never be blamed. Responsibility would rest with the feeler of feelings.”

— Sara Pascoe

13. “I guess this combination of ‘birth is the most natural thing in the world’ and ‘birth is agonising and dangerous and can kill everyone involved’ is difficult for us to absorb.”

— Sara Pascoe

14. “And she was right. No matter how they tried, the two humans, with the cat but without the microchip, couldn’t connect to headquarters. Raya heard a loud popping sound in her mind, like a huge rubber band being snapped, like a glider plane released from a Piper Cub.”

— Sara Pascoe

15. “She peeped through one of the small holes in the outer wall rising up from the walkway. The world on the outside was nothing but countryside now. Dirt roads, like chocolate ribbons, disappeared into woods or green fields in the distance.”

— Sara Pascoe

16. “There’s a range of pills that claim to help men create more semen. Why? WHY? I stared at my computer; why would anyone want more of the sticky annoying bit?”

— Sara Pascoe

17. “There is no fate, there are no souls or stars crossing or ‘The Ones’. Our powerful emotion is an inbuilt survival tactic. It’s a primordial glue, sticking us together to continue the species.”

— Sara Pascoe

18. “On the end of my bed. He’s short, round and bald, with a tartan loin cloth, and what looks like a spout on the top of his head,’ Bryony said. ‘You flatter me,’ came the snide male voice. ‘But it’s a valve.”

— Sara Pascoe

19. “Raya knew this type of girl – they never liked her. Usually they’d make fun of her, behind her back, but loud enough for her to hear. She was too alternative, too poor and too cynical – the foster kid – to be of any interest to these social climbers.”

— Sara Pascoe

20. “The sunset bled into the edges of the village. Smoke curled out of the cottage chimney like a crooked finger.”

— Sara Pascoe

21. “Why are boys’ feelings a girl’s responsibility? This is treating the male response as unavoidable: the problem is schoolgirls’ hemlines.”

— Sara Pascoe

22. “And he always felt better with an aim and a purpose.”

— Sara Pascoe

23. “I am sorry for men because our culture tells them to introduce themselves to women who in the vast, vast majority don’t want to meet them.”

— Sara Pascoe

24. “What’s that Einstein quote about expecting different results from the same person? I shouldn’t feel bad – I’m here, aren’t I, I’m not the parent who didn’t even text. Or the one who locked themselves in their bedroom half of Christmas. Talking like this, it’s become clear that we are the main parts. This has all been about us, the sisters. I hadn’t realised. I tell my mouth not to share these thoughts and Dana offers me another cigarette.”

— Sara Pascoe

25. “I’m just a visual thinker – that’s all. Pictures instead of words. No big deal.”

— Sara Pascoe

26. “Maybe we can politely ignore each other forever? I think that’s the mature thing to do.”

— Sara Pascoe

27. “We’re descended from the watching-his-every-move, spreading-rumours-that-he’s-impotent, accusing-him-of-flirting-with-his-mum, jealous bitches.”

— Sara Pascoe

28. “You’re as surprised as I am. But I guess it’s true, the only guarantee in this world is change.”

— Sara Pascoe

29. “Thank you. The air across my wings again is heaven.”

— Sara Pascoe

30. “We think that the word ‘boy’ or the the word ‘girl’ says something about who a person is, who they will be. But that difference is much less dictated by the body they’re born in than created by what we expect of them and how we treat each other.”

— Sara Pascoe

31. “The light inside houses was always so golden yellow. Oswald wondered if humans saved up sunshine and piped it through their lamps.”

— Sara Pascoe

32. “It is weird that the same two parents can come together and make two such different people.”

— Sara Pascoe

33. “My tail is prehensile, but I certainly don’t tie it in knots,” Oswald said proudly.”

— Sara Pascoe

34. “I appreciate that, Joey. It’s just that I’ve come to enjoy being more of an animal. At least a bit.”

— Sara Pascoe

35. “His mother always told him he would “be a real somebody, be important someday.” And now that she was gone, he wanted to prove her right all the more.”

— Sara Pascoe

36. “Do you think it is better to be punched in the face by someone you like?”

— Sara Pascoe

37. “Taught us all a lesson about the kindness of strangers, eh?” Tiny said.”

— Sara Pascoe

38. “When I’m hung-over I try to imagine being old and look- ing back fondly on now, on this bit I’m currently living, and how in retrospect it might seem adventurous. In the future when I only ever sit in a chair because I’m too gnarled for pleasure or movement I’ll remember when I stayed out all night and had life-changing conversations and walked all the way home because I lost my phone.”

— Sara Pascoe

39. “When looking for evolutionary explanations it can seem like we’re seeking to excuse behaviour, to justify it. But I do not think there is any excuse or justification. Evolutionary pressures are not a defence.”

— Sara Pascoe

40. “This felt good, but raw – people caring so deeply.”

— Sara Pascoe

41. “Love is described like GOD.”

— Sara Pascoe

42. “It was like rush hour on four paws.”

— Sara Pascoe

43. “By six in the morning, she was baking with Emma. She was allowed to eat the burnt and the broken, and together they invented new muffins and pastries.”

— Sara Pascoe

44. “Joey, you’re a terrific human, my favorite, as a matter of fact. You mustn’t forget that. Ever. Will you give me your word?”

— Sara Pascoe

45. “These ‘historical’ texts made us angry because they didn’t feel like a reflection of some other time, but of our own.”

— Sara Pascoe

46. “It’s only in my head, the madness. And there’s no way of knowing if all this is going on in everyone else’s head too without exposing myself, and I’d rather be insane and on the loose than locked up in a hospital.”

— Sara Pascoe

47. “It’s perverse that the finest compliment given to a woman who has just made a person is that she looks like she hasn’t.”

— Sara Pascoe

48. “It felt like a strong, soft cloth that would catch her if she fell, and would also polish her to make her shine. Cherished. That’s what it was.”

— Sara Pascoe

49. “The summer sun bowing out threw slashes of colour between the buildings. London looked big, empty, and lonely. She stood in the doorway, like a cat trying to make up its mind.”

— Sara Pascoe

50. “Suddenly, an idea swooshed into his marsupial brain like a small propeller plane buzzing a crowd. ‘Why didn’t I think of that?”

— Sara Pascoe