420 Quotes by Caitlin Moran

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?

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.

You don’t need to be legendary all the time. You can just be legendary for 10 minutes a day.

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

Self-harm – the world will come at you with knives anyway. You do not need to beat them to it.

Because this injunction for all women to have children isn’t in any way logical. If you take a moment to consider the state of the world, the thing you notice is that there are plenty of babies being born; the planet really doesn’t need all of us to produce more babies.

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!

You can’t meet your heroes – because they are, in the end, just an idea, that lives inside you.

If you’re not a confident person, pretend to be one.