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| e32ccb0 | However, what I do believe to genuinely sacred - and, indeed, more useful to the earth as a whole - is trying to ensure that there are as few unbalanced, destructive people as possible. By whatever rationale you use, ending a pregnancy 12 weeks into gestation is incalculably more moral than bringing an unwanted child into this world. It's those unhappy, unwanted children, who then grew into angry adults, who have caused the great majority .. | children decisions woman | Caitlin Moran | |
| f150cca | When a woman walks into a room, her outfit is the first thing she says, before she even opens her mouth. Women are judged on what they wear in a way men would find incomprehensible. | Caitlin Moran | ||
| 5a754fb | As I have said, in the same way that you can tell if some sexism is happening to you by asking the question "Is this polite, or not?" you can tell whether some misogynistic societal pressure is being exerted on women by calmly enquiring, "And are the men doing this, as well?" | Caitlin Moran | ||
| 866ebf4 | And so I have brought this pint for him--a proper Irish pint, from Ireland. This pint--brought through the sky, and over the sea. I am finally buying my old man a good pint of Guinness. As I walk through the door, holding the glass--kids throwing themselves at me, one already crying--I hold it out to Dadda, and tell him to sip it. He tears the cling film off--looking at me, confused--and then takes a sip. "Christ. That's flat," he says." .. | Caitlin Moran | ||
| 0979aeb | us not forget Charlie Watts punching Mick Jagger after Jagger called him "my drummer." "You're my singer," Watts snarled, before adjusting his cuffs, and walking away." | Caitlin Moran | ||
| e5076cb | It seemed to me that this was the real reason people wanted to fuck so much. To get here. To get to this tiny, quiet place where there was nothing else to do but be with each other. Just to be two humans who had for a short while stopped wanting. This is the beautiful, final destination. The end of things. | Caitlin Moran | ||
| 4aaa4a1 | And I think: I could do this. Fuck writing a book about a fat girl and a dragon. I could be a music journalist, instead. | Caitlin Moran | ||
| 612d896 | I will never tell anyone when I feel bad again. I will never confide a weakness. It does not work. It makes things worse. 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 | ||
| 5e43dfb | It's very important my parent's don't think I'm starting to fall in love with people, because then they might notice that I'm growing up, and I'm kind of trying to keep it a secret. I think it will cause an incident | feminist funny growing-up humour secret | Caitlin Moran | |
| 7e209d6 | I think if you thought about it a little while longer, you'd realize that you'd far better be a Ghostbuster: a nerd in New York with an unlicensed nuclear accelerator on your back, and a one-in-four chance of being Bill Murray. | Caitlin Moran | ||
| 0ec0a86 | But deciding not to have children is a very, very hard decision for a woman to make: the atmosphere is worryingly inconducive to saying, "I choose not to," or "It all sounds a bit vile, tbh." We call these women "selfish." The inference of the word "childless" is negative: one of lack, and loss." | Caitlin Moran | ||
| d563f52 | when cynicism becomes the default language, playfulness and invention become impossible. | Caitlin Moran | ||
| c6ddb3c | In the midst of this hormonal gloom, however, the calvary finally arrives, over the hill, jangling its spurs, and epaulettes shining in the sun: my green library card. Now I'm 13, I can get adult books out of the library, without having to borrow my parents'cards. And that means I can get secret books out. Dirty books. Books with sex in. | Caitlin Moran | ||
| 5e5b396 | I feel excitingly...free. Things were going to happen to me last night that I did not like - and I stopped them. I have never prevented my own doom before. I have never stood in the path of certain unhappiness and told myself - lovingly, like a mother to myself - "No! This unhappiness will not suit you! Turn around and go another way!" I have previously been resigned to any and all fates ahead - mute and compliant, worried about seeming we.. | Caitlin Moran | ||
| 7016dc8 | Parents drinking is the reason you came into the world, and if we didn't keep doing it then, by God, it would be the reason you went back out of it. | children conception drinking parenting | Caitlin Moran | |
| 03aba5e | I guess the men of Iceland will have to get used to the idea that women are not for sale," ~ Gudrun Jonsdottir" | Caitlin Moran | ||
| 1a65e0a | As the writer Caitlin Moran tweeted: "For those who say, 'why complain- just block?'--on a big troll day, it can be 50 violent/rape messages an hour." | Rebecca Solnit | ||
| 01f43c7 | Man, I was on the shepherd's pie last night like you wouldn't believe. I had, like, MASH in my EYEBROWS by 10pm. I was on a total mince rush! | Caitlin Moran | ||
| e7bf8e6 | After all, everyone is bisexual after 11pm. | Caitlin Moran | ||
| 3e91d77 | I've read de Sade, and Anais Nun, and , and the . First you have to have pleasure-- pain. | pleasure | Caitlin Moran | |
| 45e9666 | Babies being "given" to women as gifts makes the women sound powerless." | Caitlin Moran | ||
| a20c9d6 | Traditional feminism would tell you that we should concentrate on the big stuff like pay inequality, female circumcision in the Third World, and domestic abuse. And they are, obviously, pressing and disgusting and wrong, and the world cannot look itself squarely in the eye until they're stopped. But all those littler, stupider, more obvious day-to-day problems with being a woman are, in many ways, just as deleterious to women's peace of min.. | Caitlin Moran | ||
| 4431233 | At its best - and I love a nice frock - fashion is a game. But for women, it's a compulsory game, like netball. And you can't get out of it by faking a period. I know. I've tried. | Caitlin Moran | ||
| f52ef74 |
Solo cuando la mayoria de los habitantes de este planeta esten convencidos de que se estan muriendo, cada minuto que pasa, empezaremos a comportarnos como seres conscientes, racionales y compasivos. Porque, aunque el atractivo de < |
feminism feminismo feminismo-radical feminist feminista humor | Caitlin Moran | |
| b07ad08 | The working class do things differently. I can hear it. I can see we are not wrong. We are not just poor people who have not yet evolved into something else - i.e., people with money. We are something else - just as we are. The working classes do it differently. We are the next thing. We power popular culture - just as, before, we powered the Industrial Revolution. The past is theirs, but the future's mine. They're all out of time. | Caitlin Moran | ||
| 07254f5 | So here is the quick way of working out if you're a feminist. Put your hand in your underpants. a. Do you have a vagina? and b. Do you want to be in charge of it? If you said "yes" to both, then congratulations! You're a feminist." | Caitlin Moran | ||
| e36e391 | The more women argue, loudly, against feminism, the more they both prove it exists and that they enjoy its hard-won privileges. | Caitlin Moran | ||
| b1da556 | Show a girl a pioneering hero--Sylvia Plath, Dorothy Parker, Frida Kahlo, Cleopatra, Boudicca, Joan of Arc--and you also, more often than not, show a girl a woman who was eventually crushed. | Caitlin Moran | ||
| 090261a | Lee stopped, looked north. I twas working almost like a plan. It was possible to see Intention in it...he gave no further directions...it had never really been in his hands at all. And yet his was the responsibility. | Michael Shaara | ||
| 36a2dba | The earth was actually shuddering. It was as if you were a baby and your mother was shuddering with cold. | Michael Shaara | ||
| fdfa9e4 | Home. One place is just like another, really. Maybe not. But truth is it's all just rock and dirt and people are roughly the same. I was born up there but I'm no stranger here. Have always felt at home everywhere, even in Virginia, where they hate me. Everywhere you go there's nothing but the same rock and dirt and houses and people and deer and birds. They give it all names, but I'm at home everywhere. Odd thing: unpatriotic. I was at home.. | Michael Shaara | ||
| 21455d0 | How do you force a man to fight - for freedom? The idiocy of it jarred him. | Michael Shaara | ||
| c675eb9 | Ross said, "They play even during an attack. Not very good. But inspiring. Have you heard the Rebel yell?" Fremantle nodded. "Godawful sound. I expect they learned it from Indians." | Michael Shaara | ||
| 157d2f6 | Longstreet took a deep breath. In the winter the fever had come to Richmond. In a week they were dead. All within a week, all three. He saw the sweet faces: moment of enormous pain. The thing had pushed him out of his mind, insane, but no one knew it. He had not thought God would do a thing like that...she kept standing in the door: And he could not even help her, could say nothing, could not move, could not even take her into his arms. N.. | Michael Shaara | ||
| 7993fd1 | Everybody knows all the movements. General So and So should have done such and such. God knows we all try. We none of us lose battles on purpose. But now on this field what can we do that's undone? | Michael Shaara | ||
| 7b694a6 | A true gentleman has no vices, but he allows you your own. | Michael Shaara | ||
| 6c18222 | In the presence of real tragedy you feel neither pain nor joy nor hatred, only a sense of enormous space and time suspended, the great doors open to black eternity, the rising across the terrible field of that last enormous, unanswerable question. | Michael Shaara | ||
| 7c4572e | How can they look in the eyes of a man and make a slave of him and then quote the Bible? | Michael Shaara | ||
| e3841d0 | Chamberlain raised his saber, let loose the shout that was the greatest sound he could make, boiling the yell up from his chest: Fix bayonets! Charge! Fix bayonets! Charge! Fix bayonets! Charge! He leaped down from the boulder, still screaming, his voice beginning to to crack and give, and all around him his men were roaring animal screams, and he saw the whole Regiment rising and pouring over the wall and beginning to bound down through th.. | civil-war civil-war-fiction drama gallantry history inspirational war warrior | Michael Shaara | |
| a937ddd | It won't snow on us," I told my hiking companions, "because I lead a good and virtuous life." "We're dead," Dave Long said." | yellowstone | Tim Cahill | |
| b6d8bca | It won't snow on us," I told my hiking companions, "because I lead a good and virtuous life." "We're dead," Dave Long said." | yellowstone | Tim Cahill | |
| 9592ddc | Manhattan is where America began. | Russell Shorto | ||
| 839e6d2 | Elk were mating now - The males were fighting, and they had to chase the females, which depleted the fat that both sexes had accumulated over the summer and thereby diminished their chances of surviving the winter. "It would be better for the elk," Dave said as we prepared dinner, "if the females just gave it up." All three women stared at him. A silence ensued. Dave said, "Or I could be wrong." | nature sex women yellowstone | Tim Cahill | |
| 5b83af1 | In a political system where nearly every adult may vote but where knowledge, wealth, social position, access to officials, and other resources are unequally distributed, who actually governs? --ROBERT A. DAHL, Who Governs? | Hedrick Smith |