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This is the happiest you've ever been," I told myself in the mirror in the ornate Victorian bathroom, two hours later. I was having a little girl-to-girl chat with me - "You've made a friend! You're making a friend right now! Look at your face, in the middle of friending! You are hatching an attachment!"
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Caitlin Moran |
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I am an enthusiast who's been pretending to be a cynic. But I have been correctly labeled now. I am for things - not against them. I must remember this. Mainly because this is more fun. It's exhausting being cynical. You are trying to be an immovable, angry rock in the middle of a stream. But the stream will not move. It is you that will be worn down to dull silt.
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Caitlin Moran |
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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. Are you a feminist? Hahaha. Of course you are.
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Caitlin Moran |
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In fact, in recent years I have become more and more didactic about pubic hair - to the point where I now believe that there are only four things a grown, modern woman should have: a pair of yellow shoes (they unexpectedly go with everything), a friend who will come and post bail at 4 a.m., a fail-safe pie recipe, and a proper muff. A big, hairy minge. A lovely furry moof that looks - when she sits, naked - as if she has a marmoset sitting ..
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vaginas
hair
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Caitlin Moran |
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One of the little sorrows of being cool is that similarly cool people are too cool to ever come over and tell you you're cool - because that's just not cool. And so,gradually, the entire point of being cool is being eroded.
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Caitlin Moran |
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The problem with the word "vagina" is that vaginas seem to be just straight-out bad luck. Only a masochist would want one, because only awful things happen to them. Vaginas get torn. Vaginas get "examined.".. No. Let's clear this up right now - I don't actually have a vagina. I never have. I, personally, have a cunt. Cunt is a proper, old, historic, strong word, and it doubles up as the most potent swear word in the English language. Yeah. ..
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Caitlin Moran |
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in many ways, there is no crueler or more inappropriate present to give a child than estrogen and a big pair of tits.
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Caitlin Moran |
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Freely available, hardcore 21st-century pornography blasts through men's and women's sexual imaginations like antibiotics and kills all mystery, uncertainty, and doubt--good and bad.
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Caitlin Moran |
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When people ask workingwomen, "When are you going to have a baby?" what they're really asking is "When are you going to leave?"
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Caitlin Moran |
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Practically the first action of the Neanderthal--on the happy day he evolved out of the monkey egg--was to draw a picture on a cave wall of a man with an enormous willy. Or, indeed, perhaps it was the first action of a woman. After all, we're more interested in (a) cocks and (b) decorating.
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Caitlin Moran |
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No estoy <> ni <>. Soy partidaria de los seis mil millones.
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Caitlin Moran |
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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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Caitlin Moran |
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Of course, in the end, when Mapplethorpe turned out to be very gay, Smith was left with no other option than to go off and write Horses and grow the world's most influential lady mustache instead. Her hand was forced into productivity.
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Caitlin Moran |
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People aren't their . We are not our art.
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Caitlin Moran |
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I am thrilled by the idea of killing myself. It seems like such a gratifyingly noble thing to do. A monster has come to town--me--and there is only one hero who can kill it: me.
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Caitlin Moran |
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they're making new kinds of girls in America. Girls who don't give a fuck. Girls who dare. Girls who do it because other girls do it. Girls who would like a girl like you.
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Caitlin Moran |
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The idea that pornography is intrinsically exploitative and sexist is bizarre: pornography is just "some fucking", after all. The act of having sex isn't sexist so there's no way pornography can be, in itself, inherently misogynist. So no. Pornography isn't the problem. Strident feminists are fine with pornography. It's the porn industry that's the problem. The whole thing is as offensive, sclerotic, depressing, emotionally bankrupt and des..
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Caitlin Moran |
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The sudden noise through the headphones is disconcerting--a massive, evil-sounding slab of guitar, seemingly played with the sole intention of terrifying anyone who hasn't yet lived through a roughly equivalent sonic experience, such as riding their tricycle under a malfunctioning cement mixer full of dying children.
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Caitlin Moran |
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And do not think you shouldn't be standing on that chair, shouting, "I AM A FEMINIST!" if you are a boy. A male feminist is one of the most glorious end-products of evolution. A male feminist should ABSOLUTELY be on the chair--so we ladies may all toast you, in champagne, before coveting your body wildly. And maybe get you to change that lightbulb, while you're up there. We cannot do it ourselves. There is a big spiderweb on the socket."
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Caitlin Moran |
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In the street below, a posh-looking drunk man is reading the card of a prostitute, Blue-Tacked up by a doorbell. He's examining it with all the forensic care I presume he puts into reading a wine list. 'What are you looking for?' I ask him, in my head. 'What woman will go best with your main course of terrible, horny loneliness?' I speculate, briefly, on how different the world would be if it were run by women. In that world, if you were a ..
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men
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Caitlin Moran |
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She doesn't like the makeup, either. "I once nearly blinded myself with a mascara brush," she says, looking querulously at my eyeliner. I don't want to point out that that says far more about her than it does about me. She might as well be telling me a story of how she once confused Push for Pull on a door, then banning me from using doors again--"Lest you also be betrayed by doors."
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Caitlin Moran |
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Now that I know how birth works-now that I've been talked through labor by that quiet-voiced woman-I feel I've finally been told what my task is. It's simple-so simple I'm amazed I didn't know it before. One morning I am going to wake up, and before I sleep again, I will have to tick off a long list of contractions, one by one. And when I get to the last one, I will have my girl. Each one of these will be a job in itself-a minute-long exper..
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Caitlin Moran |
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I'm very into the idea of sorting things out through superior paperwork. This is my favorite transformatory power.
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Caitlin Moran |
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He's not a person--he's a place you travel to. Everything changes when you're with him. He is the mayor of good times. I remember a quote I read: "It was no man you wanted, believe me--it was a world."
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Caitlin Moran |
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I have a rule of thumb that allows me to judge--when time is pressing and one needs to make a snap judgment--whether some sexist bullshit is afoot. Obviously it's not 100 percent infallible but, by and large, it definitely points you in the right direction. And it's asking this question: "Are the men doing it? Are the men worrying about this as well? Is this taking up the men's time? Are the men told not to do this, as it's "letting our sid..
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Caitlin Moran |
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Going blind every time you drain a boiling pan of pasta, because it steams up your glasses real bad.
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Caitlin Moran |
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Comer compulsivamente es la adiccion que eligen las personas que tienen que cuidar de otros, y ese es el motivo de que se considere la adiccion de menor rango. Es una manera de joderte a ti misma mientras te mantienes completamente operativa, porque no te queda mas remedio.
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There's no point in drinking if no one's watching.
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Caitlin Moran |
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Necesitamos recuperar urgentemente la palabra "feminismo". Cuando las estadisticas senalan que solo el 29% de las mujeres norteamericanas se describirian a si mismas como feministas, y solo un 42% de las britanicas, yo solia pensar: ?Que creeis que ES el feminismo, senoras? ?Que aspecto de la " liberacion de la mujer" no va con vosotras? ?Es el derecho al voto? ?El derecho a no ser una propiedad del hombre con el que te casas? ?La campana p..
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Caitlin Moran |
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Cada libro, cada teatro de opera, cada lanzamiento espacial a la luna y cada manifiesto existen porque alguien, en algun lugar, prendio el silencio al ver entrar a otra persona y la habitacion y luego se consumio en silencio porque esa otra persona no se fijo en ella.
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Caitlin Moran |
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Most sexism is down to men being accustomed to us being the losers. That's what the problem is. We just have bad status. Man are accustomed to us being runners-up or being disqualified entirely. For men born pre-feminism, this is what they were raised on: second-class citizen mothers; sisters who need to be married off; female schoolmates going to secretarial school, then becoming housewives. Women who disengaged. Disappeared.
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Caitlin Moran |
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It really is important you say these words out loud. "I AM A FEMINIST." If you feel you cannot say it--not even standing on the ground--I would be alarmed. It's probably one of the most important things a woman will ever say: the equal of "I love you," Is it a boy or a girl?" or "No! I've changed my mind! I don't want bangs!" Say it. SAY IT! SAY IT NOW! Because if you can't, you're basically bending over, saying, "Kick my arse and take my v..
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Caitlin Moran |
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Poor people can write. It's one of the few things poverty, and lack
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Caitlin Moran |
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But believing in an afterlife totally negates your current existence. It's like an insidious and destabilising mental illness.
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Caitlin Moran |
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First class is a simple visual representation of who has all the money in the world: guys who look like this.
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Caitlin Moran |
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Amnesty International Survey found that 25 percent of people believe a woman is to blame for being raped if she dresses "provocatively."
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Caitlin Moran |
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They are furious and exhausted from having to explain to the men what the women have known all along.
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Caitlin Moran |
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A lo largo de los siglos, se pueden leer historias de mujeres que, contra todo pronostico, llegaron a ser mujeres de verdad, pero que acabaron transgrediendo. siendo infelices, viendo coartada su libertad o simplemente destruidas porque a su alrededor la sociedad seguia equivocada. Si muestras a cualquier joven una de nuestras heroicas pioneras -Sylvia Plath, Dorothy Parker, Frida Kahlo, Cleopatra, Boudicca, Juana de Arco-, le estaras mostr..
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mujeres-en-la-historia
mujeres-traducción
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Caitlin Moran |
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Despues de la fugaz promesa de que la revolucion sexual liberaria el lexico sexual de las mujeres, ese se ha visto reducido de nuevo a una serie de caricaturas estrechas de miras enojosas y explotadoras.
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Caitlin Moran |
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No puedo creer que hayaos llegado a un punto en el que nos cuesta dinero tener un cono. Nos estan obligando a pagar por el cuidado y mantenimiento de nuestra entrepierna como si se tratara de un jardin de la comunidad. Es un impuesto oculto. El IVA del cono
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Caitlin Moran |
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Porque el hecho de que una pareja heterosexual contrate a una senora de la limpieza se considera una traicion al feminismo es algo que no tiene ni pies ni cabeza, a no ser que estes convencido de que llevar una casa es de alguna manera: a) una obligacion ineludible de las mujeres, que ademas b) se hace siempre unicamente por amor, nunca por dinero, porque eso "estropea" en cierto modo la magia del hogar. Como si los platos supieran que los..
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labores-domésticas
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Caitlin Moran |
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No puedo creer que hayamos llegado a un punto en el que nos cuesta dinero tener un cono. Nos estan obligando a pagar por el cuidado y mantenimiento de nuestra entrepierna como si se tratara de un jardin de la comunidad. Es un impuesto oculto. El IVA del cono
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vello
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Caitlin Moran |
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Apesar de todas as pessoas que tentaram abusar e destratar do feminismo, essa continua sendo a palavra de que precisamos. Nenhuma outra serve.
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Caitlin Moran |
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Nao acho que o fato de as mulheres serem vistas como inferiores seja um preconceito com base no odio que os homens tem de nos. Quando se olha para a historia, e um preconceito baseado em fatos.
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