Quotes by Caitlin Moran

Caitlin Moran

A male feminist is one of the most glorious end-products of evolution.

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Males

All art is someone trying to tell you something.

Art

Art Is

Trying

All the things that are taboo are the things that are not normal, and all the things that are not normal are the things that are exclusively about physically being a woman.

Being A Woman

Normal

Taboo

Any action a woman engages in from a spirit of joy, and within a similarly safe and joyous environment, falls within the city-walls of feminism. A girl has a right to dance how she wants, when her favourite record comes on.

Fall

Girl

Wall

As a former ballerina, I can’t put down Maggie Shipstead’s new book, Astonish Me.

Ballerina

Book

Maggie

As far as I’m concerned, you’re a feminist by default if you’re born in the Western world right now.

Born

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World

Batman doesn’t want a baby in order to feel he’s ‘done everything’. He’s just saved Gotham again! If this means that Batman must be a feminist role model above, say, Nicola Horlick, then so be it.

Baby

Mean

Order

Benedict Cumberbatch is very beautiful.

Beautiful

Very Beautiful

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. We think of nonmothers as rangy lone wolves – rattling around, as dangerous as teenage boys or men. We make women feel that their narrative has ground to a halt in their thirities if they don’t “finish things” properly and have children.

Children

Mother

Teenage

But I am, personally, not a gambler. I wouldn’t spend £1 on the lottery, let alone take a punt on a pregnancy. The stakes are far, far too high. I can’t agree with a society that would force me to bet on how much I could love under duress.

Duress

Force

Pregnancy

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Being Sad

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Bullshit

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College

Complaining

Cooking

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Duress

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Enough

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Quotes by Caitlin Moran

Caitlin Moran

A male feminist is one of the most glorious end-products of evolution.

All art is someone trying to tell you something.

All the things that are taboo are the things that are not normal, and all the things that are not normal are the things that are exclusively about physically being a woman.

Any action a woman engages in from a spirit of joy, and within a similarly safe and joyous environment, falls within the city-walls of feminism. A girl has a right to dance how she wants, when her favourite record comes on.

As a former ballerina, I can’t put down Maggie Shipstead’s new book, Astonish Me.

As far as I’m concerned, you’re a feminist by default if you’re born in the Western world right now.

Batman doesn’t want a baby in order to feel he’s ‘done everything’. He’s just saved Gotham again! If this means that Batman must be a feminist role model above, say, Nicola Horlick, then so be it.

Benedict Cumberbatch is very beautiful.

But I am, personally, not a gambler. I wouldn’t spend £1 on the lottery, let alone take a punt on a pregnancy. The stakes are far, far too high. I can’t agree with a society that would force me to bet on how much I could love under duress.

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