Words matter. These are the best Caitlin Moran Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
I am pathetically law-abiding.
I don’t regret not going to college. Students learn up to the age of 21, then stop. I’ll always be learning – the things that really matter in life. How to sign on, how to get free food, how to be streetwise.
In the end, I want to spend my 60s writing bonkbusters like Jilly Cooper.
The doughy-faced woman has been forced to sit on the sidelines of culture for too long, and it’s now time for us to stand up with our big round faces like the moon and say we have things to say, too. We have a round-faced agenda we want to push.
The thing is, one in three women in the Western world will end up having an abortion, but they never talk about it. When you keep silent about that stuff, it is because you are embarrassed by the societal distaste of the topic.
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.
I loved Riot Grrl. Not only was it a punk rock revolution, but it meant you could get dressed for a night out for less than two pounds!
Once you become poor, tired and time-constrained, you become a much better human being.
One of the great things about being a writer/journalist is that my boss loves me to go out and do features on being someone else. I did a feature on Kate Middleton, where I went to an incredible fancy state home in the countryside, put on a wedding dress and posed for engagement pictures with a fake Prince William.
I am not good at small talk. I will hide in a cupboard to avoid chitty-chat.
Our world is afflicted by poverty. Don’t spend all this money on clothes!
As far as I’m concerned, you’re a feminist by default if you’re born in the Western world right now.
In the U.K., we have a paper called ‘The Daily Mail,’ which is quite misogynist. And every day, it just writes pieces about: ‘Women, you’re going to die now! Women, here’s shoes that give you cancer! Women, just hate yourselves!’
Flyaway, problem hair is the enemy of feminism, and was probably invented by the Man to crush Susan Sontag.
Telly never has any smart, amusing intellectuals living on a council estate.
I can’t think of anything I hate more than a former punk – they are the most self-righteous people in the world.
The first thing to improve society is not banning abortion, but making sure that everyone who had a child is in the best position to be able to rear it.
When I saw ‘Pretty In Pink’ at the cinema at the age of 11, I just thought it was a period piece from maybe 100 years previously. I had no idea that was what everybody was supposed to be wearing.
I wrote my first book at eight, all of four pages. At 10, I did a 40-page story. At 12, I wrote two stage plays.
You can crush any woman by suggesting that she’s fat, not even saying the word ‘fat’ but just suggesting she’s fat.
The kind of classic pose of a female model is to look kind of sexy and a bit annoyed.
If every woman who’s had an abortion took tomorrow off in protest, America would grind to a halt. And that would be symbolic: because women grind to a halt if they are not in control of their fertility.
A majority of women’s magazines feature women who do amazing things, but then the article focuses on how she ruined it with her shoes.
I see feminism as a massive party. It’s cool, the idea that 50% of the population can now start doing things and having fun and experimenting with their hair and makeup.
I once went into a meeting, and every woman put her a million-pound bag on the table. Then I’m there with my tote bag and anorak. And I’m like, well, I’m still the most important person in the room right now.
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.
I don’t campaign for the end of the aristocracy or the upper classes; I don’t really want to destroy anything at all. I just want more plurality.
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.
If you read all your history books, there are no women in them.
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.
I genuinely miss writing now on the rare days I don’t write; my mouth waters when I think about writing, and I have an extreme physical reaction to the idea of doing it.
If you’re not a confident person, pretend to be one.
You can be socially accepted and tell the truth about what it is to be a woman.
When my children say, ‘In the future, Mummy, will things get better or worse for humanity?’ I say: ‘Who knows, since Amy Winehouse died. It’s all in the air now. Eat your broccoli.’
It used to be if you wanted something nice to wear, you would sew it yourself for your body type. Women before the 20th century didn’t have this problem. Now, it seems we’re all squeezed into random designs. They’re designed for no one.
In the early ’90s, it was grunge; everybody was fully clothed. Alanis Morissette was one of the biggest artists in the world, never wore makeup, wearing Doc Marten boots, and then the Spice Girls turn up, and suddenly it all looks a bit burlesque; suddenly they’re the biggest band in the world.
Simultaneously, my two biggest heroes are Susan Sontag and Morticia Addams from ‘The Addams Family.’
I’ve generally got low levels of embarrassment.
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.
The idea of not being able to control my own fertility genuinely terrifies me. That one mistake might change your life. That everything I am, and do, could be ended by the repeal of laws our mothers fought so hard for, that women had waited for the entire span of humanity to come about.
