420 Quotes by Caitlin Moran

John Kite was the first person I’d ever met who made me feel normal. That when i talked “too much,” it was not the point where you walked away, going, “You’re weird, Johanna,” or “Shut up, Johanna” – but that was when the conversation actually got good. The more ridiculous things I said – the more astonishing things I confessed – the more he roared with laughter, or slapped the table and said: “That is exactly how it is, you outrageous item.

Explaining why you love something is one of the most important jobs on earth.

Because my biggest secret of all – the one I would rather die than tell, the one I wouldn’t even put in my diary – is that I really, truly, in my heart, want to be beautiful. I want to be beautiful so much – because it will keep me safe, and keep me lucky, and it’s too exhausting not to be.

It was the Spice Girls who messed it all up. And obviously, the appropriating of the phrase “girl power”, which at that point overrode any notion of feminism, and which was a phrase that meant absolutely nothing apart from being friends with your girlfriends.

Our new budget now, with no wriggle room for anything extra – not a pot of jam, or a new pair of shoes. We cannot do anything other than stay very still. We are on 11 percent less of was-never-enough-in-the-first-place.

A book is a beautiful, paper mausoleum, or tomb, in which to store ideas... to keep the bones of your thoughts in one place, for all time. I just want to say... “Hello. We can hear you. The words survived.

Anger is just fear, brought to the boil. And the thing about scared people is, whenever you ask them for advice, on whatever subject, they only ever have one thing to say to you: “Run.

I hate stories where the conclusion is that women just have to suffer and get stronger,” Julia said. “Those are the worst stories.

I told my girls, ‘Look at Rihanna: She’s one of the biggest pop stars in the world. She’s really famous, really powerful, really rich. Yet in every single video she can only wear panties. Poor Rhianna! We’ll know when she is properly powerful and successful when we see her in a lovely cardigan.’