420 Quotes by Caitlin Moran

Why on earth have I, because I’m a woman, got to be nice to everyone?

Anger is just fear, brought to the boil.

How amazing to go to a gig thinking of nothing but how loud you will shout; how hard you will dance; how much you will sweat; how tightly you will hug your friends, as your favourite song plays. How amazing to react to music in the way music wants you – to become an ecstatic animal.

Kriss gives me a sibling-punch. 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.

When you say you’re not a feminist, if feminism hadn’t existed, and you didn’t live in a feminist world, you wouldn’t be saying that, because you’d be too busy scrubbing out the toilets in back while cooking up your husband’s tea and dying in childbirth at the age of 34.

Your hard-won triumphs can be wholly negated if you live in a climate where your victories are seen as threatening, incorrect, distasteful, or – most crucially of all, for a teenage girl – simply uncool. Few girls would choose to be right – right, down into their clever, brilliant bones – but lonely.

Since I met you, I feel like I can see the operating system of the world- and it is unrequited love. That is why everyone’s doing everything. Every book, opera house, moon shot and manifesto is here because someone, somewhere, lit up silent when someone else came into the room, and then quietly burned when they didn’t notice them.

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.

It’s really best not to tell people when you feel bad. Growing up is about keeping secrets, and pretending everything is fine.