Caitlin Moran Quotes

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.

If you read all your history books, there are no women in them.

We think of feminism as an academic subject, but it’s not. If you think feminism is academic, you think there’s a right or wrong.

I love puffins. They are small, round gothic birds, and their babies are called pufflings.

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.

I am not good at small talk. I will hide in a cupboard to avoid chitty-chat.

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 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.

People get really scared when women reclaim words, talk about themselves honestly and also make jokes because it’s a really unstoppable combination.

The revolution doesn’t always look perfect.

You can crush any woman by suggesting that she‘s fat, not even saying the word ‘fat’ but just suggesting she’s fat.

I just want Tina Fey to be my best friend. And Lena Dunham. And Oprah, too.

The word ‘spinster’ tells you everything you need to know about our attitude of women who choose not to marry.

Simultaneously, my two biggest heroes are Susan Sontag and Morticia Addams from ‘The Addams Family.’

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.

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.

Benedict Cumberbatch is very beautiful.

Mental health is seen as a massive drag to have to write about – worthy, dull. Something you should ‘have’ to read / write about.

My parents were hippies. I’m the eldest of eight children.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Twitter means all my friends are in my computer. All my ideas are in my computer. I can do whatever I want in there; I’m kind of… bionic.

You can be socially accepted and tell the truth about what it is to be a woman.

There are 3 billion women in the world, so there are 3 billion ways to be a feminist.

I don’t think there should be anything that women are embarrassed to talk about in the 21st century, because for the last 100,000 years, men have said everything that’s on their minds and described everything they have done.

I’ve learnt that you tend most to make a div of yourself when you’re trying to cover up the fact that you don’t know what you’re doing. And that simply saying ‘I don’t know what I’m doing’ is a massive relief.

Flyaway, problem hair is the enemy of feminism, and was probably invented by the Man to crush Susan Sontag.

If you can find a frock you look nice in and can run up three flights of stairs, you’re not fat.

If you’re not a confident person, pretend to be one.

As far as I’m concerned, you’re a feminist by default if you’re born in the Western world right now.

I hate that tabloid idea of anybody who is famous having to forfeit their privacy.

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!’

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.