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| 1c5a255 | I don't understand, then, why, in the midst of all this, pregnant women - women trying to make rational decisions about their futures and, usually, that of their families, too - should be subject to more pressure about preserving life than, say, Vladimir Putin, the World Bank, or the Catholic Church. | woman | Caitlin Moran | |
| 5c8c08c | I've learned what my contemporaries will have learned in their first terms at college, or university--that the first friends you make in a new place are the ones you usually spend the next three terms trying to lose, and that it's the people who are quietly holding back, and standing in the corner, that you will want to be with, when your second year comes around. | Caitlin Moran | ||
| 4e6071c | Feminism has had exactly the same problem that "political correctness" has had: people keep using the phrase without really knowing what it means." -- | Caitlin Moran | ||
| 1964c02 | It would be boring to say how much we laughed. He lay in his bed, and told stories, and would go quiet - asleep? - and then he would giggle, and then I would giggle, and he would say, 'You put the phone down,' and I would say, 'No, you put the phone down.' At one point, he staggered in for a piss, three feet from where I lay - a thunderous unloading of whisky, Guinness and gin. 'You put the phone down,' he said. 'No - you put the phone down.. | Caitlin Moran | ||
| 9e60f3a | Anyone who has a sibling will know what that is--a punch that really hurts quite a lot, and that is meant to, but that you cannot take offense at, or retaliate against, because you went out of your way to get it--because sometimes you want your sibling to punch you. No one knows why this is. | Caitlin Moran | ||
| 34652dd | We need more women who are allowed to prove their worth as people, rather than being assessed merely for their potential to create new people. | Caitlin Moran | ||
| 30f05c6 | It was good to be gay on Top of the Pops years before it was good to be gay in Parliament, or gay in church, or gay on the rugby pitch. And it's not just gay progress that happens in this way: 24 had a black president before America did. Jane Eyre was a feminist before Germaine Greer was born. A Trip to the Moon put humans on the Moon in 1902. This is why recent debates about the importance of the arts contain, at core, an unhappy error o.. | arts-and-humanities arts-education arts-funding funding-for-the-arts | Caitlin Moran | |
| a2a40e8 | there is no crueler or more inappropriate present to give a child than estrogen and a big pair of tits. | Caitlin Moran | ||
| 813509b | The reason they don't ask me when they're having kids, of course, is because men can, pretty much, carry on a normal life once they've had a baby. | Caitlin Moran | ||
| cae75fa | A nok tudjak, hogy a munkahelyen egy lazan, hetkoznapian vagy akar lomposan oltozott not nem vesznek olyan komolyan, mint egy hasonloan oltozott ferfi kollegat. A farmeres, tornacipos csajokat nem leptetik elo. A farmeres, tornacipos ferfiakat igen. A nok kulsejet altalaban egyenertekunek tartjak azzal, akik vagyunk - es epp ezert gyakran ez hatarozza meg, hogy mi tortenik velunk. | Caitlin Moran | ||
| eb9d8d2 | Overeating is the addiction of choice of carers, and that's why it's come to be regarded as the lowest-ranking of all the addictions. It's a way of fucking yourself up while still remaining fully functional, because you have to. Fat people aren't indulging in the "luxury" of their addiction making them useless, chaotic, or a burden. Instead, they are slowly self-destructing in a way that doesn't inconvenience anyone. And that's why it's so .. | Caitlin Moran | ||
| 04e3400 | You don't live in London. You play London - to win. That's why we're all here. It is a city full of contestants, each chasing one of a million possible prizes: wealth, love, fame. Inspiration. | fame inspirational london love quote wealth | Caitlin Moran | |
| 9c71111 | And yet, despite the multiplicity of times we've done it, it is still a funny, exultant, true thing - where for a short time you turn into something else and fly; where you stop fretting and wanting, and are simply alight with joy - and all while never venturing beyond the walls of your room. And I would put our continued success down to one simple thing. At the end of every tumbling session, one of us will turn to the other and say, "Thank.. | long-term-relationships marriage sex | Caitlin Moran | |
| 7e52829 | There's no self-expression or joy in these joints-- no springboard to self-discovery, or adventure, like any decent night out involving men, women, alcohol, and taking your clothes off. Why do many people have a gut reaction to strip clubs? Because inside them, no one is having fun. | Caitlin Moran | ||
| 4bac2ef | In the 21st century, we don't need to march against size-zero models, risible pornography, lap-dancing clubs, and Botox. We don't need to riot or go on hunger strikes. There's no need to throw ourselves under a horse, or even a donkey. We just need to look it in the eye, squarely, for a minute, and then start laughing at it. | Caitlin Moran | ||
| ff46620 | John Kite was the first person I'd ever met who made me feel normal. That when i talked "too much," it was not the point where you walked away, going, "You're weird, Johanna," or "Shut up, Johanna" - but that was when the conversation actually got good. The more ridiculous things I said - the more astonishing things I confessed - the more he roared with laughter, or slapped the table and said: "That is exactly how it is, you outrageous item.. | Caitlin Moran | ||
| 875de21 | 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!" | Caitlin Moran | ||
| 4f59acb | 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. | Caitlin Moran | ||
| 902cf45 | 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. | Caitlin Moran | ||
| 2e2898a | 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 .. | hair vaginas | Caitlin Moran | |
| 080eb31 | 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. | Caitlin Moran | ||
| 97282fa | 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. .. | Caitlin Moran | ||
| f829a8d | in many ways, there is no crueler or more inappropriate present to give a child than estrogen and a big pair of tits. | Caitlin Moran | ||
| 653eab3 | 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. | Caitlin Moran | ||
| 0c82dc3 | When people ask workingwomen, "When are you going to have a baby?" what they're really asking is "When are you going to leave?" | Caitlin Moran | ||
| 979d9f5 | 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. | Caitlin Moran | ||
| 9cdb22e | No estoy <> ni <>. Soy partidaria de los seis mil millones. | Caitlin Moran | ||
| 3a42672 | 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 | ||
| a71dee1 | 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. | Caitlin Moran | ||
| 9ed0051 | People aren't their . We are not our art. | Caitlin Moran | ||
| 5b2eefc | 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. | Caitlin Moran | ||
| deb4602 | 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. | Caitlin Moran | ||
| 7d12933 | 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.. | Caitlin Moran | ||
| d53b573 | 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. | Caitlin Moran | ||
| 1bc03d5 | 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." | Caitlin Moran | ||
| 561c74c | 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 .. | men protitutes women | Caitlin Moran | |
| 3d288d4 | 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." | Caitlin Moran | ||
| 7694b65 | 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.. | Caitlin Moran | ||
| 0081b7b | I'm very into the idea of sorting things out through superior paperwork. This is my favorite transformatory power. | Caitlin Moran | ||
| 1da31d6 | 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." | Caitlin Moran | ||
| 00f6196 | 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.. | Caitlin Moran | ||
| 4be6408 | Going blind every time you drain a boiling pan of pasta, because it steams up your glasses real bad. | Caitlin Moran | ||
| 03cebd3 | 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. | mujeres | caitlin moran | |
| b721e91 | There's no point in drinking if no one's watching. | Caitlin Moran |