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. Caitlin Moran More Quotes by Caitlin Moran More Quotes From Caitlin Moran 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. Caitlin Moran drunk internet three I cannot understand antiabortion arguments that center on the sanctity of life. As a species, we’ve fairly comprehensively demonstrated that we don’t believe in the sanctity of life. The shrugging acceptance of war, famine, epidemic, pain, and lifelong, grinding poverty show us that, whatever we tell ourselves, we’ve made only the most feeble of efforts to really treat human life as sacred. Caitlin Moran pain war believe I've generally got low levels of embarrassment. Caitlin Moran embarrassment levels lows When you live in a small house with five younger siblings, it's actually far more sensible- and much quicker- to cry alone. Caitlin Moran cry sibling house I’m neither ‘pro-women’ nor ‘anti-men’. I’m just ‘Thumbs up for the six billion Caitlin Moran thumbs-up feminist men And every book, you find, has its own social group--friends of its own it wants to introduce you to, like a party in the library that need never, ever end. Caitlin Moran library party book 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'. Caitlin Moran issues zero new-york 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. Caitlin Moran elephants house home The word spinster tells you everything that you need to know about our attitude of women who choose not to marry, yes. Caitlin Moran spinsters attitude needs If you eat enough books, you start pooping out words. Caitlin Moran ifs enough book Culture is so much faster and so much more effective than anything else. If you go on a march, you march for a couple hours and it might be on the news that night, but if it happens culturally, it happens forever. Everywhere in the world, that TV show is being played. Someone is downloading it illegally. It's blowing someone else's mind. Culture marches so quickly, and it's a language we all understand. Caitlin Moran couple forever night If you come from a working-class background, you can't afford to write full time, because you're just not being paid. Basically, all my arguments come down to Marxist doctrine: The world is shaped by money, so the only voices you'll hear are the ones with money behind them. But thankfully, culture and cool are some things that circumvent money, because if you're cool, people will want to give you money - suddenly you shape the market and people start coming to you. Which is why culture has always been a traditional way out for working-class people. Caitlin Moran writing giving people 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. Caitlin Moran feel-better jobs thinking Just proportionately, statistically, one in three women are going to have an abortion. They're not all going to feel guilty. Caitlin Moran abortion guilty three 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. Caitlin Moran editors want kids 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. Caitlin Moran self-harm knives hurt It's just a horrible thing to keep saying to a woman, do you want a baby inside you? I mean, it's creepy. Caitlin Moran creepy baby mean It's really best not to tell people when you feel bad. Growing up is about keeping secrets, and pretending everything is fine. Caitlin Moran keeping-secrets growing-up life I think loads of women have this idea that their life is going to start at some point, once they've busted all these problems of being a woman, once we're thin and we're pretty and we've got all of our clothes and stuff, that's when our life will begin. And you meet people at 48 who are still thinking that, and 58. Caitlin Moran clothes ideas thinking The sort of the template of being a mother is that you're endlessly giving to the point of exhaustion. You know, that's amazing if you can do that, but for that to be seen as the norm of motherhood, that women are always supposed to give until they're exhausted, you know, to always take on all these burdens - and it's why I'm so, you know, in favor of protecting all of the abortion legislation we've got, to give women the right to go, I can't do that. I can't do it. I'm too tired. Caitlin Moran tired mother giving
