420 Quotes by Caitlin Moran

I can’t think of anything I hate more than a former punk – they are the most self-righteous people in the world.

There’s no point in drinking if no one’s watching.

And of course, the deepest irony about the young being cynical is that they are the ones that need to move, and dance, and trust the most.

Let’s all go and be feminists in the pub.

But deciding not to have children is a very, very hard decision for a woman to make: the atmosphere is worryingly inconducive to saying, “I choose not to,” or “It all sounds a bit vile, tbh.” We call these women “selfish.” The inference of the word “childless” is negative: one of lack, and loss.

For as I sit there, in pain, I suddenly notice I have changed. I am not self-loathing anymore. These billion cheap blackbirds inside me – beaking the wires of the cage, frantic – are now on the ground, sleeping. This billion eyed mess, which I cannot comprehend, contain or name, has now disappeared – replaced by these hot, red lines on my leg and arm.

Sitting in seat 14A, in the sun, I float on a full-moon, tidal joy unlike anything I’ve ever experienced. I am getting incredibly high on a single, astounding fact: that it’s always sunny above the clouds. Always. That every day on Earth- every day I have ever had- was secretly sunny after all... I feel like I’ve just flown 600 miles per hour head-on into the most beautiful metaphor of my life: If you fly high enough, if you get above the clouds, it’s never-ending summer.

Rock ’n’ roll is a terrible babysitter, baby.

When people ask workingwomen, “When are you going to have a baby?” what they’re really asking is “When are you going to leave?