420 Quotes by Caitlin Moran

Whenever I see a taboo, I just think that's something we need to drag screaming out into the light and discuss. Because taboos are where our fears live, and taboos are the things that keep us tiny. Particularly for women.

You can crush any woman by suggesting that she's fat, not even saying the word 'fat' but just suggesting she's fat.

In my family, my fat family, none of us ever say the word 'fat.' 'Fat' is the word you hear shouted on the playground or in the street - it's never allowed over the threshold of the house. My mum won't have that filth in her house. At home together, we are safe. ... There will be no harm to our feelings here because we never acknowledge fat exists. We never refer to our size. We are the elephants in the room.

Flyaway, problem hair is the enemy of feminism, and was probably invented by the Man to crush Susan Sontag.

When I hear women talking about how their wedding is going to be/was the best day of their life, I can’t help but think, You just haven’t taken enough MDMA in a field at 3 a.m., love.

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

If you eat enough books, you start pooping out words.

I could have written a misery memoir and instead I tried to make it funny. I never complained.

I've got more friends than I've ever had in my life at the age of 39 - although given that I didn't have any friends until the age of 27, it doesn't say much - because I found the internet.