Caitlin Moran Quotes

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Caitlin Moran

Profession : Journalist

Birth : April 5, 1975

Watching 'Girls' has just given me renewed courage.

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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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I'm so glad I spent 10 years being sad and lonely.

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

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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.

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

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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.

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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 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.

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I can't think of anything I hate more than a former punk - they are the most self-righteous people in the world.

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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.

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

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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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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Most women I know love the idea of fashion, but the practicalities that go with it are just distressing.

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