Caitlin Moran Quotes

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• When I talk to girls, they go, 'I'm not a feminist.' And I say: 'What? You don't want to vote? Do you want to be owned by your husband? Do you want your money from your job to go into his bank account? If you were raped, do you still want that to be a crime? Congratulations : you are a feminist.'

  Caitlin Moran

  Girl, Money, Jobs

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• A library in the middle of a community is a cross between an emergency exit, a life raft and a festival. They are cathedrals of the mind; hospitals of the soul; theme parks of the imagination. On a cold, rainy island, they are the only sheltered public spaces where you are not a consumer, but a citizen, instead.

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  Islands, Space, Imagination

  "Libraries: Cathedrals of Our Souls" by Caitlin Moran, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 14, 2012.

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• The world is difficult and we are all breakable. So just be kind.

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  World, Be Kind, Kind

  Caitlin Moran (2014). “How to Build a Girl”, p.177, Random House

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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. Are you a feminist? Hahaha. Of course you are.

  Caitlin Moran

  Men, Nuts, Feminist

  "How to Be a Woman". Book by Caitlin Moran, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 16, 2011.

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

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  Persons, Ifs

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• I told my girls, 'Look at Rihanna: She's one of the biggest pop stars in the world. She's really famous, really powerful, really rich. Yet in every single video she can only wear panties. Poor Rhianna! We'll know when she is properly powerful and successful when we see her in a lovely cardigan.'

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  Girl, Stars, Powerful

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• My core belief is that if you're complaining about something for more than three minutes, two minutes ago you should have done something about it.

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  Should Have, Two, Complaining

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• Always remember that, nine times out of ten, you probably aren’t having a full-on nervous breakdown – you just need a cup of tea and a biscuit. You’d be amazed how easily and repeatedly you can confuse the two. Get a big biscuit tin.

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  Two, Tea, Tin

  Caitlin Moran (2016). “Moranifesto”, p.343, Random House

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• It's always sunny above the clouds. Always. Every day on earth - every day I have ever had - was secretly sunny, after all.

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  Clouds, Earth, Always Sunny

  Caitlin Moran (2014). “How to Build a Girl”, p.100, Random House

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• Life divides into amazing enjoyable times and appalling experiences that will make future amazing anecdotes.

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  Anecdotes, Enjoyable, Divides

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• I want a Zero Tolerance policy on All The Patriarchal Bullshit.

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  Zero, Equal Pay, Bullshit

  Caitlin Moran (2012). “How to Be a Woman”, p.10, Harper Collins

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• When I hear women talking about how their wedding is going to be/was the best day of their life, I can’t help but think, You just haven’t taken enough MDMA in a field at 3 a.m., love.

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  Taken, Thinking, Talking

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• You don't need to be legendary all the time. You can just be legendary for 10 minutes a day.

  Caitlin Moran

  Needs, Legendary, Minutes

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

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• When a woman says, ‘I have nothing to wear!’, what she really means is, ‘There’s nothing here for who I’m supposed to be today.

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  Fashion, Mean, Today

  Caitlin Moran (2011). “How To Be a Woman”, p.211, Random House

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• A library in the middle of a community is a cross between an emergency exit, a life raft and a festival.

  Caitlin Moran

  Community, Library, Festivals

  Caitlin Moran (2012). “Moranthology”, p.211, Random House

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• But deciding not to have children is a very, very hard decision for a woman to make: the atmosphere is worryingly inconducive to saying, "I choose not to," or "it all sounds a bit vile, tbh." We call these women "selfish" The inference of the word "childless" is negative: one of lack, and loss. We think of nonmothers as rangy lone wolves - rattling around, as dangerous as teenage boys or men. We make women feel that their narrative has ground to a halt in their thirities if they don't "finish things" properly and have children.

  Caitlin Moran

  Mother, Teenage, Children

  "How To Be a Woman". Book by Caitlin Moran, 2011.

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• I always give three pieces of advice to all the teenage girls when I do my talks: long country walks - it's important to get some fresh air in your lungs, and be in contact with your body; masturbation - it takes the edge off, it'll get you through; and the revolution - believing in changing the world.

  Caitlin Moran

  Girl, Country, Teenage

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

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• The problem with battling yourself is that even if you win, you lose.

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  Winning, Problem, Ifs

  Caitlin Moran (2012). “How to Be a Woman”, p.8, Harper Collins

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• You can always tell when a woman is with the wrong man, because she has so much to say about the fact that nothing's happening. When women find the right person, on the other hand, they just... disappear for six months, then resurface, eyes shiny, and usually about six pounds heavier.

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  Eye, Men, Hands

  Caitlin Moran (2011). “How To Be a Woman”, p.153, Random House

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• I like a little bit of revolution. I think it's a very good hobby for a young woman. Better than squash.

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  Thinking, Squash, Hobbies

  "Half Wollstonecraft, Half LOLcats: Talking with Caitlin Moran". Interview with Sally Errico, www.newyorker.com. November 15, 2012.

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• I cannot understand antiabortion arguments that center on the sanctity of life. As a species, we’ve fairly comprehensively demonstrated that we don’t believe in the sanctity of life. The shrugging acceptance of war, famine, epidemic, pain, and lifelong, grinding poverty show us that, whatever we tell ourselves, we’ve made only the most feeble of efforts to really treat human life as sacred.

  Caitlin Moran

  Pain, War, Believe

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• We must recall the most important of humanity guidelines: Be polite. Being polite is possibly the greatest daily contribution everyone can make to life on Earth.

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  Feminist, Humanity, Important

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• For throughout history, you can read the stories of women who - against all the odds - got being a woman right, but ended up being compromised, unhappy, hobbled or ruined, because all around them, society was still wrong. Show a girl a pioneering hero - Sylvia Plath, Dorothy Parker, Frida Kahlo, Cleopatra, Boudicca, Joan of Arc - and you also, more often than not, show a girl a woman who was eventually crushed.

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  Girl, Hero, Odds

  Caitlin Moran (2012). “How to Be a Woman”, p.8, Harper Collins

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• I have a rule for working out if the root problem of something is, in fact, sexism. And it is this: asking 'Are the boys doing it? Are the boys having to worry about this stuff? Are the boys the centre of a gigantic global debate on this subject?

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  Boys, Roots, Work Out

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• Any action a woman engages in from a spirit of joy, and within a similarly safe and joyous environment, falls within the city-walls of feminism. A girl has a right to dance how she wants, when her favourite record comes on.

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  Girl, Wall, Fall

  Caitlin Moran (2011). “How To Be a Woman”, p.174, Random House

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