I know people go on about Twitter, but it is amazing. It's whatever you want it to be, and all the women got in there before the boys..

Never love someone whom you think you need to mend – or who makes you feel like you should be mended. There are boys out there who look for shining g….

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 choos….

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….

I read something once that when you're online, your inhibitions are lowered to the state where you've had three drinks. Once you basically know that ….

I cannot understand antiabortion arguments that center on the sanctity of life. As a species, we’ve fairly comprehensively demonstrated that we don’t….

When you say you're not a feminist, if feminism hadn't existed, and you didn't live in a feminist world, you wouldn't be saying that, because you'd b….

I had given up on being beautiful. But I thought I could kind of inspire boys to write songs about me. So I became a music journalist at the age of 1….

Whenever I see a taboo, I just think that's something we need to drag screaming out into the light and discuss. Because taboos are where our fears li….

You just wanted to be normal. It wasn't even being beautiful. I just wanted to be smooth and thin and have, and you know, have beautiful glossy hair ….

But as the years went on, I realised that what I really want to be, all told, is a human. Just a productive, honest, courteously treated human..

The word spinster tells you everything that you need to know about our attitude of women who choose not to marry, yes..

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

But nearly every woman I know has a roughly similar story - in fact, dozens of them: stories about being obsessed with a celebrity, work colleague or….

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

It's the silliness--the profligacy, and the silliness--that's so dizzying: a seven-year-old will run downstairs, kiss you hard, and then run back ups….

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

I come from grunge, and then Brit-pop, scenes where you boast about how little you spent on an outfit. ... Now, it seems you must find The Dress, the….

For me, and I suspect a lot of socially awkward people, dealing with people face-to-face seems really traumatic. Particularly if you have massive swe….

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..

If anyone was going to write a song or, you know, or a book, or make a film about a girl like me, it was going to have to be a girl like me, and quit….