420 Quotes by Caitlin Moran

Two women at the same event wearing the same outfit is a disaster. But two women at the same event singing the same song is a party. And two women at the same event talking about Doris from Fame is a friendship for life. Fill yourself with words, choruses, and heroes, like you’re supposed to fill your wardrobe with shoes, brooches, and belts.

And every book, you find, has its own social group – friends of its own it wants to introduce you to, like a party in the library that need never, ever end.

Once you’ve got a big feminist and political justification for talking about how you went round to Benedict Cumberbatch’s house and did period all over his sofa, then there’s no reason not to tell that anecdote in the middle of a dinner party.

A majority of women’s magazines feature women who do amazing things, but then the article focuses on how she ruined it with her shoes.

I’ve learned what my contemporaries will have learned in their first terms at college, or university – that the first friends you make in a new place are the ones you usually spend the next three terms trying to lose, and that it’s the people who are quietly holding back, and standing in the corner, that you will want to be with, when your second year comes around.

They made you how they need you. They built you with all they know, and love – and so they can’t see what you’re not: all the gaps you feel leave you vulnerable. All the new possibilities only imagined by your generation, and nonexistent to theirs. They have done their best, with the technology they had to hand at the time – but now it’s up to you, small, brave future, to do your best with what you have.

Why can’t we just loosen our belts, take off our heels, and cheerfully rot, like the boys?

I feel in my bones that Lady Gaga is a true strident feminist and good for my soul – but how do I square this with the fact that she’s constantly walking around in her bra and pants, even at, like, airports and stuff, where even nudists wear a fleece and linen drawstring trousers?

He’s not a person – he’s a place you travel to. Everything changes when you’re with him. He is the mayor of good times. I remember a quote I read: “It was no man you wanted, believe me – it was a world.