You think it doesn't really matter if you screw up this time around because you can just sort it all out in paradise Caitlin Moran More Quotes by Caitlin Moran More Quotes From Caitlin Moran 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 A male feminist is one of the most glorious end-products of evolution. Caitlin Moran males feminist evolution 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 girls; they will stand next to you and say quiet things in your ear that only you can hear and that will slowly drain the joy out of your heart. The books about vampires are true, baby. Drive a stake through their hearts and run away. Caitlin Moran girl running baby Always remember that, nine times out of ten, you probably aren’t having a full-on nervous breakdown – you just need a cup of tea and a biscuit. You’d be amazed how easily and repeatedly you can confuse the two. Get a big biscuit tin. Caitlin Moran tin tea two It was the Spice Girls who messed it all up. And obviously, the appropriating of the phrase "girl power", which at that point overrode any notion of feminism, and which was a phrase that meant absolutely nothing apart from being friends with your girlfriends. Caitlin Moran feminism phrases girl It's like if every single male artist dressed up as farmers. In every video they were on a farm. Whether it was Jason Derulo or Oasis, they're always on a tractor, they're always surrounded by sheep and always in boots. And all the songs are about enjoying farming, and this is all you've had for 10 years - you'd think you were going mad. Caitlin Moran artist song thinking The people around you are mirrors, I think. Caitlin Moran mirrors eye thinking Self-harm - the world will come at you with knives anyway. You do not need to beat them to it. Caitlin Moran self-harm knives needs Heaven. The biggest waste of our time we ever invented, outside jigsaws. Caitlin Moran jigsaw waste heaven We need to reclaim the word feminism. We need to reclaim the word feminism real bad. Caitlin Moran feminism real needs When you've got a mother who's given birth to eight children, you know, often without any kind of medical intervention - just she gave birth to one of my brothers sort of on the bedroom floor in front of all of us -you know, you see that women are fairly capable. Caitlin Moran brother mother children I think it's a really important thing for women to be able to just put their hands up and go, I can't actually do any more. Caitlin Moran important hands thinking Life divides into amazing enjoyable times and appalling experiences that will make future amazing anecdotes. Caitlin Moran anecdotes divides enjoyable As far as I'm concerned, you're a feminist by default if you're born in the Western world right now. Caitlin Moran born feminist world If you can find a frock you look nice in and can run up three flights of stairs, you're not fat. Caitlin Moran three nice running If you read all your history books, there are no women in them. Caitlin Moran history-books ifs book The kind of classic pose of a female model is to look kind of sexy and a bit annoyed. Caitlin Moran female sexy annoyed 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. Caitlin Moran makeup encouragement thinking 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. Caitlin Moran abortion able children 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 someone they vaguely knew for years; living in a parallel world in their head; conjuring up endless plots and scenarios for this thing that never actually happened. Caitlin Moran plot stories years
