Explore Quotes by Caitlin Moran

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 am pathetically law-abiding.

Feminism, as it stands, well... stands. It has ground to a halt.

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

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

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

Benedict Cumberbatch is very beautiful.

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.

Feminism means something - legislation, cultural change - but 'Girl Power' meant nothing more than being friends with your friends.

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

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.'

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

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.

You wanted to become a doctor to help people and feel better at the end of your job, I think, watching them, as the nurse takes my hand. But I don't think you do feel better at the end of the day. You look like humans have constantly disappointed you.

It's really best not to tell people when you feel bad. Growing up is about keeping secrets, and pretending everything is fine.

Never feel this bad again. Never come back to this place, where only a knife will do. Live a gentle and kind life. Don't do things that make you want to hurt yourself.

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

All art is someone trying to tell you something.

So this is why I can't agree with "don't feed the trolls." When millionaire celebrity broadcasters and entire publications start trolling, ignoring them isn't really an option anymore. They are gradually making trolling normative. We have to start feeding the trolls: feeding them with achingly polite emails and comments, reminding them of how billions of people prefer to communicate with each other, every day, in the most unregulated arena of all: courteously.

You should write, write, write every day, and learn to edit and pare it right back so you're proud of every sentence, and each one is either being useful or beautiful, but hopefully both.

The word barren tells you everything you need to know...The word spinster tells you everything you need to know about our attitude of women who choose not to marry... Imagine if you saw George Clooney on the cover of a magazine every week with, is George broody? Is George going to adopt a baby? When is George going to have another kid? It would just seem weird. We'd seem demented, yet it's totally valid for women.