Top 44 Caitlin Moran Quotes

I don’t think there should be anything that women are embarrassed to talk about in the 21st century, because for the last 100,000 years, men have said everything that’s on their minds and described everything they have done.

I don’t campaign for the end of the aristocracy or the upper classes; I don’t really want to destroy anything at all. I just want more plurality.

I’m so glad I spent 10 years being sad and lonely.

Benedict Cumberbatch is very beautiful.

Feminism means something – legislation, cultural change – but ‘Girl Power‘ meant nothing more than being friends with your friends.

What is feminism? Simply the belief that women should be as free as men, however nuts, dim, deluded, badly dressed, fat, receding, lazy, and smug they might be.

I am not good at small talk. I will hide in a cupboard to avoid chitty-chat.

When I saw ‘Pretty In Pink‘ at the cinema at the age of 11, I just thought it was a period piece from maybe 100 years previously. I had no idea that was what everybody was supposed to be wearing.

In the end, I want to spend my 60s writing bonkbusters like Jilly Cooper.

There are 3 billion women in the world, so there are 3 billion ways to be a feminist.

If you can find a frock you look nice in and can run up three flights of stairs, you’re not fat.

Simultaneously, my two biggest heroes are Susan Sontag and Morticia Addams from ‘The Addams Family.’

I never wanted to be famous. It was amusing at first, but now I hate it. I just wanted to be respected by people I respect. And I wanted to be rich. It’s best to get rich, then you can do what you want.

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.

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.

I’ve generally got low levels of embarrassment.

In the early ’90s, it was grunge; everybody was fully clothed. Alanis Morissette was one of the biggest artists in the world, never wore makeup, wearing Doc Marten boots, and then the Spice Girls turn up, and suddenly it all looks a bit burlesque; suddenly they’re the biggest band in the world.

I loved Riot Grrl. Not only was it a punk rock revolution, but it meant you could get dressed for a night out for less than two pounds!

I can’t live in a world where there are only, like, four kinds of women. Or where every woman is obsessed with cake. The very least I ask is that we have one female character in the world who likes savory things! I don’t have any role models who like cheese!

I once went into a meeting, and every woman put her a million-pound bag on the table. Then I’m there with my tote bag and anorak. And I’m like, well, I’m still the most important person in the room right now.

I don’t think that women being seen as inferior is a prejudice based on male hatred of women. When you look at history, it’s a prejudice based on simple fact.

The revolution doesn’t always look perfect.

I can honestly say that my abortion was one of the least difficult decisions of my life. I’m not being flippant when I say it took me longer to decide what worktops to have in the kitchen than whether I was prepared to spend the rest of my life being responsible for a further human being.

I’m quite British; I’ve got big, flat feet, and I can’t wear heels. I’ve got very, very pale Celtic skin, so my legs are always a frightening blue color. So when you take out clothes that reveal your legs, shoes that have any kind of heel, no shop will actually take my money.

It used to be if you wanted something nice to wear, you would sew it yourself for your body type. Women before the 20th century didn’t have this problem. Now, it seems we’re all squeezed into random designs. They’re designed for no one.

Every woman who chooses – joyfully, thoughtfully, calmly, of their own free will and desire – not to have a child does womankind a massive favour in the long term.

I genuinely miss writing now on the rare days I don’t write; my mouth waters when I think about writing, and I have an extreme physical reaction to the idea of doing it.

I can’t think of anything I hate more than a former punk – they are the most self-righteous people in the world.

People get really scared when women reclaim words, talk about themselves honestly and also make jokes because it’s a really unstoppable combination.

I think there are brilliant jokes to be made about abortion, and we should be able to talk about this in the way that we make jokes about death – you should be able to make jokes about everything.

If you read all your history books, there are no women in them.

Men have made the world. And they’ve made a brilliant job of it. I love men. You know, men, you built Paris and you invented The Beatles, and, you know, and you’ve taught dogs to say ‘sausages.’ You know, I love your world. Thank you for it.

I’ve learnt that you tend most to make a div of yourself when you’re trying to cover up the fact that you don’t know what you’re doing. And that simply saying ‘I don’t know what I’m doing’ is a massive relief.

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.

You can be socially accepted and tell the truth about what it is to be a woman.

I am pathetically law-abiding.

I hate that tabloid idea of anybody who is famous having to forfeit their privacy.

I love puffins. They are small, round gothic birds, and their babies are called pufflings.

I wrote my first book at eight, all of four pages. At 10, I did a 40-page story. At 12, I wrote two stage plays.

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

The word ‘spinster’ tells you everything you need to know about our attitude of women who choose not to marry.

We think of feminism as an academic subject, but it’s not. If you think feminism is academic, you think there’s a right or wrong.

Oh God, are you supposed to collect things? I don’t collect things. I like throwing things away.

Once you become poor, tired and time-constrained, you become a much better human being.