420 Quotes by Caitlin Moran

You can be whatever you want – so long as you’re sure it’s what you actually want, rather than one of two equally dodgy choices foisted onto you.

You wanted to become a doctor to help people and feel better at the end of your job, I think, watching them, as the nurse takes my hand. But I don’t think you do feel better at the end of the day. You look like humans have constantly disappointed you.

Evenings never end – they just, without you noticing, turn into tomorrow.

Because I still don’t know what I really think or feel, and I’m throwing grenades and filling the air with smoke while I desperately, desperately try to get off the ground: to get elevation. Because I haven’t yet learned the simplest and most important thing of all: the world is difficult, and we are all breakable. So just be kind.

You are midwife to yourself, and will give birth to yourself, over and over, in dark rooms, alone.

Personally, I find the idea that women are supposed to “love” shopping bizarre – nearly every woman I know wants to cry after 45 minutes of trawling the high street looking for a shirt and hits the gin with alacrity upon the sad occasions when jeans have to be found.

If you can find a frock you look nice in and can run up three flights of stairs, you’re not fat.

Rock music needs very supportive bras, I note, holding onto my bosoms as I leap up and down, doggedly. This is something the music press had never mentioned. They have so little guidance for girls.

We need more women who are allowed to prove their worth as people, rather than being assessed merely for their potential to create new people.