420 Quotes by Caitlin Moran

The next few weeks are some of the worst of my life, because I have discovered something amazing: that some people aren’t just people, but a place – a whole world. Sometimes you find someone you could live in for the rest of your life.

As I’ve not been kissed before, I’m not really sure how you activate this function on a man.

But that is all part of becoming an adult. That is the difference between girls and women. That they are finally ready to hear the secret of what makes them them. That they are strong enough – for good, or for ill – to ask someone what is, unexpectedly, the most terrifying, revelatory question, on Earth; one you have to be brave, and ready, to hear: “Why do you love me?

Because what you are, as a teenager, is a small, silver, empty rocket. And you use loud music as fuel, and then the information in books as maps and coordinates, to tell you where you’re going.

She doesn’t like the makeup, either. “I once nearly blinded myself with a mascara brush,” she says, looking querulously at my eyeliner. I don’t want to point out that that says far more about her than it does about me. She might as well be telling me a story of how she once confused Push for Pull on a door, then banning me from using doors again – “Lest you also be betrayed by doors.

When you live in a small house with five younger siblings, it’s actually far more sensible- and much quicker- to cry alone.

Feminism has had exactly the same problem that “political correctness” has had: people keep using the phrase without really knowing what it means.

It’s exhausting being cynical. You are trying to be an immovable, angry rock in the middle of a stream. But the stream will not move. It is you that will be worn down to dull silt.

I’m so glad I spent 10 years being sad and lonely.