Caitlin Moran Quotes
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I say this in the spirit of feminist encouragement, but I think I'm pretty hot. I've got all the facial features, facing the right way, at the right end, and you can always paint over the bad bits with makeup.
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I can honestly say that my abortion was one of the least difficult decisions of my life. I'm not being flippant when I say it took me longer to decide what worktops to have in the kitchen than whether I was prepared to spend the rest of my life being responsible for a further human being.
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I think there are brilliant jokes to be made about abortion, and we should be able to talk about this in the way that we make jokes about death - you should be able to make jokes about everything.
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I've generally got low levels of embarrassment.
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I'm so glad I spent 10 years being sad and lonely.
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Telly never has any smart, amusing intellectuals living on a council estate.
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Feminism, as it stands, well... stands. It has ground to a halt.
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I don't think that women being seen as inferior is a prejudice based on male hatred of women. When you look at history, it's a prejudice based on simple fact.
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I think that instead of feminism being a political thing, it should be an act of creativity. It's more of a rock n' roll thing.
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When I learned that flour pound for pound has as many calories as sugar, and that when eating pasta you're basically eating cake, I was size 23, and my neck was restricting my breathing, and so I got on a microbiotic diet and got myself an exercise bike.
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Once you become poor, tired and time-constrained, you become a much better human being.
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If you read all your history books, there are no women in them.
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Men have made the world. And they've made a brilliant job of it. I love men. You know, men, you built Paris and you invented The Beatles, and, you know, and you've taught dogs to say 'sausages.' You know, I love your world. Thank you for it.
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Mental health is seen as a massive drag to have to write about - worthy, dull. Something you should 'have' to read / write about.
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My parents were hippies. I'm the eldest of eight children.
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You can crush any woman by suggesting that she's fat, not even saying the word 'fat' but just suggesting she's fat.
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What is feminism? Simply the belief that women should be as free as men, however nuts, dim, deluded, badly dressed, fat, receding, lazy, and smug they might be.
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Over-eating is the addiction choice of carers, and that's why it's come to be regarded as the lowest-ranking of all the addictions.
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The kind of classic pose of a female model is to look kind of sexy and a bit annoyed.
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You can be socially accepted and tell the truth about what it is to be a woman.
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Every woman who chooses - joyfully, thoughtfully, calmly, of their own free will and desire - not to have a child does womankind a massive favour in the long term.
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I just want Tina Fey to be my best friend. And Lena Dunham. And Oprah, too.
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Most women I know love the idea of fashion, but the practicalities that go with it are just distressing.
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I am pathetically law-abiding.