420 Quotes by Caitlin Moran

I don’t regret not going to college. Students learn up to the age of 21, then stop. I’ll always be learning – the things that really matter in life. How to sign on, how to get free food, how to be streetwise.

You actually don’t exist while you’re in your bedroom,” I say to the dog, so that she knows this important fact. “Teenage girls in bedrooms aren’t real.

I know people go on about Twitter, but it is amazing. It’s whatever you want it to be, and all the women got in there before the boys.

I believe in music and gin and joy and talking too much and human kindness.

There’s no self-expression or joy in these joints – no springboard to self-discovery, or adventure, like any decent night out involving men, women, alcohol, and taking your clothes off. Why do many people have a gut reaction to strip clubs? Because inside them, no one is having fun.

Shut up, Ed – the world below us has turned into a map. A real map! The woods look like the “Woodland: Deciduous” markings of Ordnance Survey. It is just as they drew it! Who knew! Who knew you could put the whole world on paper, after all! The artists were right! This is so reassuring!

When you talk to a young teenage girl, they’re just full of self-loathing. The reason they feel self-loathing is they don’t feel normal. It is a world that has not been built for them. It’s been built for men, and that’s why they feel bad.

Most sexism is down to men being accustomed to us being the losers. That’s what the problem is. We just have bad status. Man are accustomed to us being runners-up or being disqualified entirely. For men born pre-feminism, this is what they were raised on: second-class citizen mothers; sisters who need to be married off; female schoolmates going to secretarial school, then becoming housewives. Women who disengaged. Disappeared.

I think it’s a delightful thing, for a young teenage girl to befriend someone of another generation. She is like a window into the past, I think to myself.