Quotes by Caitlin Moran

About Caitlin Moran:

Caitlin Moran is an English broadcaster, TV critic and columnist at The Times, where she writes three columns a week: one for the Saturday Magazine, a TV review column, and the satirical Friday column "Celebrity Watch". Moran is British Press Awards (BPA) Columnist of the Year for 2010, and both BPA Critic of the Year 2011, and Interviewer of the Year 2011. In 2012 she was named Columnist of the Year by the London Press Club, and Culture Commentator at the Comment Awards in 2013.
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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.

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I just want Tina Fey to be my best friend. And Lena Dunham. And Oprah, too.

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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.

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

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Watching 'Girls' has just given me renewed courage.

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I see feminism as a massive party. It's cool, the idea that 50% of the population can now start doing things and having fun and experimenting with their hair and makeup.

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The idea of not being able to control my own fertility genuinely terrifies me. That one mistake might change your life. That everything I am, and do, could be ended by the repeal of laws our mothers fought so hard for, that women had waited for the e...

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

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Mental health is seen as a massive drag to have to write about - worthy, dull. Something you should 'have' to read / write about.

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

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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.

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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.

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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 b...

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One of the great things about being a writer/journalist is that my boss loves me to go out and do features on being someone else. I did a feature on Kate Middleton, where I went to an incredible fancy state home in the countryside, put on a wedding d...

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

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When my children say, 'In the future, Mummy, will things get better or worse for humanity?' I say: 'Who knows, since Amy Winehouse died. It's all in the air now. Eat your broccoli.'

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

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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...

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

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Most women I know love the idea of fashion, but the practicalities that go with it are just distressing.

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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.

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Author Bio

  • NameCaitlin Moran
  • DescriptionEnglish feminist author
  • BornApril 5, 1975
  • CountryUnited Kingdom
  • ProfessionWoman Of Letters; Journalist