Caitlin Moran Quotes - Page 3

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• In my family, my fat family, none of us ever say the word 'fat.' 'Fat' is the word you hear shouted on the playground or in the street - it's never allowed over the threshold of the house. My mum won't have that filth in her house. At home together, we are safe. ... There will be no harm to our feelings here because we never acknowledge fat exists. We never refer to our size. We are the elephants in the room.

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  Home, Elephants, House

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• When Rudy Giuliani became mayor of New York in 1993, his belief in the 'Broken Windows' theory led him to implement the 'Zero Tolerance' crime policy. Crime dropped dramatically, significantly, and continued to for the next ten years. Personally, I feel the time has come for women to introduce their own Zero Tolerance policy on the Broken Windows issues in our lives - I want a Zero Tolerance policy on 'All The Patriarchal Bullshit'.

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  New York, Zero, Issues

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• I was spurred by the fact that having worked for women's magazines myself as a journalist, if you go off and interview a female celebrity, I'd just go in and interview them like I'd interview any human being and talk about the things that interested me. And you'd come back, and you'd file your copy. And then my editor would read through my copy and go, why haven't you asked them if they want kids? And I'd be like, well, I don't know, I interviewed Aerosmith last week. And I didn't ask them that.

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  Kids, Editors, Want

  "Not A Feminist? Caitlin Moran Asks, Why Not?". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. July 29, 2016.

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• 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 16.

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  Beautiful, Song, Writing

  "Not A Feminist? Caitlin Moran Asks, Why Not?". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. July 29, 2016.

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• Why on earth have I, because I'm a woman, got to be nice to everyone?

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  Nice, Earth, Being Nice

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

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  Crush, Men, Hair

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• You are educated equally to boys. You're expected to go into equal employment with boys. In a marriage, you are legally equal. So, you know, you cannot deny we live in a feminist world.

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  Boys, Feminist, Employment

  "Not A Feminist? Caitlin Moran Asks, Why Not?". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. July 29, 2016.

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• 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.

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  Boys, People, Goes On

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

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  Lonely, Years, Being Sad

  "The Saturday interview: Caitlin Moran". Interview with Aida Edemariam, www.theguardian.com. June 17, 2011.

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• If I'm going to spunk £500 on a pair of designer shoes, it's going to be a pair that I can a) dance to 'Bad Romance' in and b) will allow me to run away from a murderer, should one suddenly decide to give chase.

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  Running, Shoes, Giving

  "How To Be a Woman".

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• I was brought up in the '80s. I was born in 1975. So by the time I got to 10 and I kind of knew that I probably was going to have to be a grown-up lady at some point, the feminine role models that I had were kind of the cast of "Dynasty" and "Dallas." And I just found that terrifying.

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  Role Models, Dallas, Roles

  "Not A Feminist? Caitlin Moran Asks, Why Not?". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. July 29, 2016.

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• 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 the entire internet is slightly drunk, it all makes a lot more sense, and you deport yourself accordingly.

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  Drunk, Three, Internet

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

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• I’m neither ‘pro-women’ nor ‘anti-men’. I’m just ‘Thumbs up for the six billion

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  Men, Thumbs Up, Feminist

  Caitlin Moran (2011). “How To Be a Woman”, p.133, Random House

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• When you live in a small house with five younger siblings, it's actually far more sensible- and much quicker- to cry alone.

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  Sibling, House, Cry

  Caitlin Moran (2012). “How to Be a Woman”, p.4, Harper Collins

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

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  Attitude, Needs, Spinsters

  "Not A Feminist? Caitlin Moran Asks, Why Not?". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. July 29, 2016.

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• 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 live, and taboos are the things that keep us tiny. Particularly for women.

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  Thinking, Light, Needs

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

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• Self-harm - the world will come at you with knives anyway. You do not need to beat them to it.

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  Self Harm, Knives, Needs

  Caitlin Moran (2014). “How to Build a Girl”, p.216, Random House

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• Heaven. The biggest waste of our time we ever invented, outside jigsaws.

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  Heaven, Waste, Jigsaw

  Caitlin Moran (2011). “How To Be a Woman”, p.290, Random House

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

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  Girl, Mean, Feminism

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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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  Creativity, Thinking, Rocks

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• I say this in the spirit of feminist encouragement, but I think I'm pretty hot. I've got all the facial features, facing the right way, at the right end, and you can always paint over the bad bits with makeup.

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  Encouragement, Makeup, Thinking

  Interview with Rosanna Greenstreet, www.theguardian.com. May 4, 2013.

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• The first thing to improve society is not banning abortion, but making sure that everyone who had a child is in the best position to be able to rear it.

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  Children, Abortion, Able

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• ...there is the sheer emotional, intellectual, physical, chemical pleasure of your children. The honest truth is that the world holds no greater gratification than lying in bed with your children, putting your leg on top of them in a semi-crushing manner, while saying sternly, "You are a poo.

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  Crush, Children, Lying

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• What art should be about,' they will say, 'is revealing exquisite and resonant truths about the human condition.' Well, to be honest - no, it shouldn’t. I mean, it can occasionally, if it wants to; but really, how many penetrating insights to human nature do you need in one lifetime? Two? Three? Once you’ve realised that no one else has a clue what they’re doing, either, and that love can be totally pointless, any further insights into human nature just start getting depressing really.

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  Depressing, Art, Mean

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• There are some women out there who are just going to look better with a mustache: that's statistics.

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  Mustache, Looks, Statistics

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