All the things that are taboo are the things that are not normal, and all the things that are not normal are the things that are exclusively about physically being a woman. Caitlin Moran More Quotes by Caitlin Moran More Quotes From Caitlin Moran 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 quite literally, me. Caitlin Moran girl song book 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. Caitlin Moran writing song beautiful As a former ballerina, I can't put down Maggie Shipstead's new book, Astonish Me. Caitlin Moran maggie ballerina book I am fully aware of what the word 'fat' means ... It's a swear word. It's a weapon. It's a sociological subspecies. It's an accusation, dismissal, and rejection. Caitlin Moran rejection weight mean Nowadays, to be frank, every week is a good week for freakshow television. we might start asking, Why are there so many freaks? And why do they all want to be on television? Caitlin Moran asking-why want television I don't regret not going to college. Students learn up to the age of 21, then stop. I'll always be learning - the things that really matter in life. How to sign on, how to get free food, how to be streetwise. Caitlin Moran regret college age Watching 'Girls' has just given me renewed courage. Caitlin Moran given girl Let's all go and be feminists in the pub. Caitlin Moran pubs feminist Mental health is seen as a massive drag to have to write about - worthy, dull. Something you should 'have' to read / write about. Caitlin Moran should-have writing dull Women are feminist by default. Caitlin Moran default feminist I wish I could learn that just three drinks is enough, but I have not learned that. Caitlin Moran drink three wish I can only work between the hours of 8:30 and 4:30, because that's when the kids are at school. So I get to do all my work and have all of my fun in that time, which means just sitting on a chair, typing, alternately clicking between writing a column and being on Twitter, and smoking as many cigarettes as I can before my lungs give out. Caitlin Moran writing fun school When you talk to a young teenage girl, they're just full of self-loathing. The reason they feel self-loathing is they don't feel normal. It is a world that has not been built for them. It's been built for men, and that's why they feel bad. Caitlin Moran teenage girl men 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 sweating issues, and particularly if on top of that you have quite smelly sweat that smells like onion soup. Caitlin Moran smell sweat issues The problem that we have is thinking there's only one kind of feminist, and that she's politically correct and right on at all times, wears flat shoes, doesn't wear makeup, probably doesn't have sex, is very angry, wears dungarees, is a vegetarian. Caitlin Moran makeup sex thinking Once you've got a big feminist and political justification for talking about how you went round to Benedict Cumberbatch's house and did period all over his sofa, then there's no reason not to tell that anecdote in the middle of a dinner party. Caitlin Moran party house talking I wish I could give up smoking, but it does taste so delicious. Caitlin Moran giving-up smoking wish I could have written a misery memoir and instead I tried to make it funny. I never complained. Caitlin Moran memoir misery written I've got more friends than I've ever had in my life at the age of 39 - although given that I didn't have any friends until the age of 27, it doesn't say much - because I found the internet. Caitlin Moran internet age found When I learned that flour pound for pound has as many calories as sugar, and that when eating pasta you're basically eating cake, I was size 23, and my neck was restricting my breathing, and so I got on a microbiotic diet and got myself an exercise bike. Caitlin Moran myself you bike cake
