Caitlin Moran quote: "It used to be if you wanted something nice to wear, you would sew it yourself for your body type. Women before the 20th century didn't have this problem. Now, it seems we're all squeezed into random designs. They're designed for no one."

People get really scared when women reclaim words, talk about themselves honestly and also make joke...
CAITLIN MORAN

The doughy-faced woman has been forced to sit on the sidelines of culture for too long, and it's...
CAITLIN MORAN

When I saw 'Pretty In Pink' at the cinema at the age of 11, I just thought it was a period p...
CAITLIN MORAN

I don't regret not going to college. Students learn up to the age of 21, then stop. I'll alw...
CAITLIN MORAN

I don't think that women being seen as inferior is a prejudice based on male hatred of women. Wh...
CAITLIN MORAN

If every woman who's had an abortion took tomorrow off in protest, America would grind to a halt...
CAITLIN MORAN

Feminism means something - legislation, cultural change - but 'Girl Power' meant nothing mor...
CAITLIN MORAN

Telly never has any smart, amusing intellectuals living on a council estate.
CAITLIN MORAN

Men have made the world. And they've made a brilliant job of it. I love men. You know, men, you ...
CAITLIN MORAN

I am not good at small talk. I will hide in a cupboard to avoid chitty-chat.
CAITLIN MORAN

I see feminism as a massive party. It's cool, the idea that 50% of the population can now start ...
CAITLIN MORAN

When I learned that flour pound for pound has as many calories as sugar, and that when eating pasta ...
CAITLIN MORAN

One of the great things about being a writer/journalist is that my boss loves me to go out and do fe...
CAITLIN MORAN

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

If you're not a confident person, pretend to be one.
CAITLIN MORAN

I loved Riot Grrl. Not only was it a punk rock revolution, but it meant you could get dressed for a ...
CAITLIN MORAN

Every woman who chooses - joyfully, thoughtfully, calmly, of their own free will and desire - not to...
CAITLIN MORAN

I do not... look very feminine. Diana, Princess of Wales is feminine... I am... femi-none.
CAITLIN MORAN

You can crush any woman by suggesting that she's fat, not even saying the word 'fat' but...
CAITLIN MORAN

In the early '90s, it was grunge; everybody was fully clothed. Alanis Morissette was one of the ...
CAITLIN MORAN

The first thing to improve society is not banning abortion, but making sure that everyone who had a ...
CAITLIN MORAN

My core belief is that if you're complaining about something for more than three minutes, two mi...
CAITLIN MORAN

But, of course, you might be asking yourself, 'Am I a feminist? I might not be. I don't know! I stil...
CAITLIN MORAN

But as the years went on, I realised that what I really want to be, all told, is a human. Just a pro...
CAITLIN MORAN

Over-eating is the addiction choice of carers, and that's why it's come to be regarded as th...
CAITLIN MORAN

I'm quite British; I've got big, flat feet, and I can't wear heels. I've got very, v...
CAITLIN MORAN

I can honestly say that my abortion was one of the least difficult decisions of my life. I'm not...
CAITLIN MORAN

These days, however, I am much calmer - since I realised that it’s technically impossible for a wo...
CAITLIN MORAN

The kind of classic pose of a female model is to look kind of sexy and a bit annoyed.
CAITLIN MORAN

When my children say, 'In the future, Mummy, will things get better or worse for humanity?' ...
CAITLIN MORAN

The thing is, one in three women in the Western world will end up having an abortion, but they never...
CAITLIN MORAN

What is feminism? Simply the belief that women should be as free as men, however nuts, dim, deluded,...
CAITLIN MORAN

When a woman says, ‘I have nothing to wear!’, what she really means is, ‘There’s nothing her...
CAITLIN MORAN

I can't live in a world where there are only, like, four kinds of women. Or where every woman is...
CAITLIN MORAN

I just want Tina Fey to be my best friend. And Lena Dunham. And Oprah, too.
CAITLIN MORAN

I hate that tabloid idea of anybody who is famous having to forfeit their privacy.
CAITLIN MORAN

I once went into a meeting, and every woman put her a million-pound bag on the table. Then I'm t...
CAITLIN MORAN

I want a Zero Tolerance policy on All The Patriarchal Bullshit.
CAITLIN MORAN

We need to reclaim the word 'feminism'. We need the word 'feminism' back real bad. When statistics c...
CAITLIN MORAN

It was good to be gay on Top of the Pops years before it was good to be gay in Parliament, or gay in...
CAITLIN MORAN

Self-harm - the world will come at you with knives anyway. You do not need to beat them to it.
CAITLIN MORAN

But I am, personally, not a gambler. I wouldn’t spend £1 on the lottery, let alone take a punt on...
CAITLIN MORAN

My parents were hippies. I'm the eldest of eight children.
CAITLIN MORAN

I cannot understand anti-abortion arguments that centre on the sanctity of life. As a species we've ...
CAITLIN MORAN

I don't campaign for the end of the aristocracy or the upper classes; I don't really want to...
CAITLIN MORAN

I remember, around age three, peas growing in the back garden. Pinching them from their pods and pop...
CAITLIN MORAN

Keith Richards is a man without regret. When I ask him if—given the chance to do it all over again...
CAITLIN MORAN

Flyaway, problem hair is the enemy of feminism, and was probably invented by the Man to crush Susan ...
CAITLIN MORAN

I've read de Sade, and Anaïs Nun, and Gravity's Rainbow, and the Story of O. First yo...
CAITLIN MORAN

We could call it Herbie. And when she reaches adolescence, and goes boy-crazy, we can say "Herbie Go...
MORAN, CAITLIN

There are certain key words you look for, in the listings. 'Jenny Agutter' is the big one. Agutter i...
MORAN, CAITLIN

As the new love-chemicals rushed through me (...) I discovered what love is, and found that it's jus...
MORAN, CAITLIN

Now I know what happens at a gig, I will be ready for it, next time--I will come in just a T-shirt a...
CAITLIN MORAN

A majority of women's magazines feature women who do amazing things, but then the article focuse...
CAITLIN MORAN

I can't think of anything I hate more than a former punk - they are the most self-righteous peop...
CAITLIN MORAN

I am pathetically law-abiding.
CAITLIN MORAN

I've generally got low levels of embarrassment.
CAITLIN MORAN

In the U.K., we have a paper called 'The Daily Mail,' which is quite misogynist. And every d...
CAITLIN MORAN

If you read all your history books, there are no women in them.
CAITLIN MORAN

We think of feminism as an academic subject, but it's not. If you think feminism is academic, yo...
CAITLIN MORAN

As far as I'm concerned, you're a feminist by default if you're born in the Western worl...
CAITLIN MORAN

I never wanted to be famous. It was amusing at first, but now I hate it. I just wanted to be respect...
CAITLIN MORAN

Twitter means all my friends are in my computer. All my ideas are in my computer. I can do whatever ...
CAITLIN MORAN

I'm so glad I spent 10 years being sad and lonely.
CAITLIN MORAN

I love puffins. They are small, round gothic birds, and their babies are called pufflings.
CAITLIN MORAN

There are 3 billion women in the world, so there are 3 billion ways to be a feminist.
CAITLIN MORAN

I think there are brilliant jokes to be made about abortion, and we should be able to talk about thi...
CAITLIN MORAN

I say this in the spirit of feminist encouragement, but I think I'm pretty hot. I've got all...
CAITLIN MORAN

The idea of not being able to control my own fertility genuinely terrifies me. That one mistake migh...
CAITLIN MORAN

I like a little bit of revolution. I think it's a very good hobby for a young woman. Better than...
CAITLIN MORAN

Mental health is seen as a massive drag to have to write about - worthy, dull. Something you should ...
CAITLIN MORAN

I've learnt that you tend most to make a div of yourself when you're trying to cover up the ...
CAITLIN MORAN

In the end, I want to spend my 60s writing bonkbusters like Jilly Cooper.
CAITLIN MORAN

I genuinely miss writing now on the rare days I don't write; my mouth waters when I think about ...
CAITLIN MORAN

I don't think there should be anything that women are embarrassed to talk about in the 21st cent...
CAITLIN MORAN

Benedict Cumberbatch is very beautiful.
CAITLIN MORAN

Once you become poor, tired and time-constrained, you become a much better human being.
CAITLIN MORAN

Oh God, are you supposed to collect things? I don't collect things. I like throwing things away.
CAITLIN MORAN

Our world is afflicted by poverty. Don't spend all this money on clothes!
CAITLIN MORAN

I know people go on about Twitter, but it is amazing. It's whatever you want it to be, and all t...
CAITLIN MORAN

Most women I know love the idea of fashion, but the practicalities that go with it are just distress...
CAITLIN MORAN

I think that instead of feminism being a political thing, it should be an act of creativity. It'...
CAITLIN MORAN

Simultaneously, my two biggest heroes are Susan Sontag and Morticia Addams from 'The Addams Fami...
CAITLIN MORAN

The word 'spinster' tells you everything you need to know about our attitude of women who ch...
CAITLIN MORAN

The revolution doesn't always look perfect.
CAITLIN MORAN

You can be socially accepted and tell the truth about what it is to be a woman.
CAITLIN MORAN

Watching 'Girls' has just given me renewed courage.
CAITLIN MORAN

I wrote my first book at eight, all of four pages. At 10, I did a 40-page story. At 12, I wrote two ...
CAITLIN MORAN

Feminism, as it stands, well... stands. It has ground to a halt.
CAITLIN MORAN

At its best fashion is a game. But for women it's a compulsory game, like net ball, and you can't ge...
CAITLIN MORAN

'Shotgun's one of the first songs I ever wrote. It's about a couple I met at Waffle Hous...
CAITLIN ROSE

If you compromise in any kind of movement or any kind of wave of revolution, if you sort of play the...
CAITLIN STASEY

'Broad City' is how I wish we could all be, whereas 'Girls' is maybe a more accurate...
CAITLIN STASEY

I've undoubtedly offended people, but in the end, I've learned the people that will understa...
CAITLIN STASEY

It's taken me time to find my feet in L.A.
CAITLIN STASEY

Surprisingly, I'm not a fan of guns or anything like that!
CAITLIN STASEY

Unfortunately for the 'Tomorrow' series, I feel that for the actors that were in the first f...
CAITLIN STASEY

It's always a little bit personal when your work is cut down for whatever reason.
CAITLIN STASEY

I have this friend who has a theory that lots of towns have energies. And, for instance, certain pla...
CAITLIN ROSE

I like buying iTunes. It's instant.
CAITLIN ROSE

It wasn't my dream to make music. It was just something I ended up doing, and no one said stop.
CAITLIN ROSE

I started making music for fun, but I had two parents who were very much in the business. I didn'...
CAITLIN ROSE

I had an indie pop phase, I had just about every phase you could think of.
CAITLIN ROSE

The only two shows I watch are 'Walking Dead' and 'Nashville,' but both just went of...
CAITLIN ROSE

I used to be fast and loose with the term 'country' because I didn't know what else to c...
CAITLIN ROSE

I get my gossip from 'Nashville' on ABC.
CAITLIN ROSE

I think I definitely learned how to structure songs, just from listening to a lot of 1960s, 1970s po...
CAITLIN ROSE

I live in Nashville, and I don't know how many people there would call me country. I really star...
CAITLIN ROSE

I went to community college for about a year but I'd started taking music seriously by then so I...
CAITLIN ROSE

'Gorilla Man' is a composite of a few individuals, but the song itself was actually inspired...
CAITLIN ROSE

If I could be more vague I'd write more about people in my life, but I hate hurting feelings or ...
CAITLIN ROSE

I have a lot of vinyl, but I only buy old records on vinyl. Like secondhand. It's too expensive ...
CAITLIN ROSE

If I'm singing something I don't like, it literally feels like stepping on nails.
CAITLIN ROSE

Growing up in Nashville, especially in a music business family, means growing up with knowledge that...
CAITLIN ROSE

I read a lot of detective novels.
CAITLIN KITTREDGE

A lot of times with novels, you can get a really deep, engaging story, but there's not a lot hap...
CAITLIN KITTREDGE

I've got lots and lots planned out, and other ideas knocking around in my head, too. I'm kin...
CAITLIN KITTREDGE

I'm extremely superstitious.
CAITLIN KITTREDGE

There are a million great books out there if you just go to Google. There's a lot to pull apart....
CAITLIN KITTREDGE

I've been a big fan of Joe Hill ever since his first novel, 'Heart-Shaped Box.'
CAITLIN KITTREDGE

My parents managed a summer camp, and it was vacant for about seven or eight months out of the year....
CAITLIN KITTREDGE

I've been on this kick reading about the beginning of forensic science: autopsies, fingerprintin...
CAITLIN KITTREDGE

I was reading about all of these medical and psychological experimental programs that the government...
CAITLIN KITTREDGE

'School of Rock' was just once in a lifetime things; I want to be a doctor, actually. I'...
CAITLIN HALE

I love singing and performing. I'm always singing. Even if I'm at school or in the car, I...
CAITLIN HALE

The whole 'School of Rock' experience was really cool, and just meeting new people from all ...
CAITLIN HALE

Jack Black is so funny! On and off screen, like, he would make you laugh every day. He's hilario...
CAITLIN HALE

There are some jobs where you think, 'There's no way! This would be too, too good. The unive...
CAITLIN FITZGERALD

You never stop thinking about technique, but really, the reason we're actors is because of the s...
CAITLIN FITZGERALD

In a play, you know where you start and end and all the stops you have to do, but in television, you...
CAITLIN FITZGERALD

T.V.'s weird because it's both the greatest gig as an actor potentially because it can be al...
CAITLIN FITZGERALD

You read a million scripts during pilot season, and most of them are not very good, so the good ones...
CAITLIN FITZGERALD

The notion of overnight stardom is really dangerous. For almost every person who has success in this...
CAITLIN FITZGERALD

I'm kind of a control freak. I like to be really prepared.
CAITLIN FITZGERALD

Treat your online affairs as part of your affairs that need to be in order - your bank, your Interne...
CAITLIN DOUGHTY

I work with a group called Compassion & Choices in California. It's attempting to get death ...
CAITLIN DOUGHTY

Vaults and caskets are not the law; they are the policy of individual cemeteries. Vaults prevent the...
CAITLIN DOUGHTY

Writing a memoir is such a private, personal experience that it's intimidating to think of adapt...
CAITLIN DOUGHTY

Ever since childhood, when I found out that the ultimate fate for all humans was death, sheer terror...
CAITLIN DOUGHTY

I want a natural burial. Just straight into the ground in a shroud.
CAITLIN DOUGHTY

I think about death most of the day, every day. We can't escape death, and choosing to ignore it...
CAITLIN DOUGHTY

I've worked very hard to become comfortable with how death works and why it happens. I now know ...
CAITLIN DOUGHTY

I am a mortician who tells you that you don't necessarily need a mortician.
CAITLIN DOUGHTY

Because we've never encountered a decomposing body, we can only assume they are out to get us. I...
CAITLIN DOUGHTY

I was fascinated by mortality. Most people are, even if they don't admit it.
CAITLIN DOUGHTY

One of the things that was most shocking to me about starting to work in the funeral industry is jus...
CAITLIN DOUGHTY

Going around not fully believing that you're going to die is really problematic because it affec...
CAITLIN DOUGHTY

For thousands of years, we did have death surrounding us, and we did have people die in the home. Yo...
CAITLIN DOUGHTY

If people really knew what they were getting into with their third chemotherapy treatment, or gettin...
CAITLIN DOUGHTY

Dying in the sanitary environment of a hospital is a relatively new concept. In the late 19th centur...
CAITLIN DOUGHTY

The home funeral - caring for the dead ourselves - changes our relationship to grieving. If you have...
CAITLIN DOUGHTY

If we ignore our death, we end up just going around completely oblivious to why we do the things we ...
CAITLIN DOUGHTY

The definition of 'morbid' is an unhealthy preoccupation with death. Unfortunately, there...
CAITLIN DOUGHTY

Death in its natural state can be very beautiful. When you think about a body that's died of nat...
CAITLIN DOUGHTY

Not only is natural burial by far the most ecologically sound way to perish, it doubles down on the ...
CAITLIN DOUGHTY

In America, burial means an embalmed body in a heavy-duty casket with a vault built over it, so that...
CAITLIN DOUGHTY

Accepting your own mortality is like eating your vegetables: You may not want to do it, but it's...
CAITLIN DOUGHTY

The death industry markets caskets and embalming under the rubric of helping bodies look 'natura...
CAITLIN DOUGHTY

Female adolescence is - universally - an emotionally and psychologically intense period.
CAITLIN FLANAGAN

The 'ideal' body is everywhere you look, and we are made to feel like failures by advertiser...
CAITLIN STASEY

All the body wants to do biologically is decompose. Once you die, it's, 'Let me out here! I&...
CAITLIN DOUGHTY

My mother was very involved with Cesar Chavez's work on behalf of the migrant farm workers in Ca...
CAITLIN FLANAGAN

We're all so close to each other, so it's sad to know that it's over.
CAITLIN THOMAS

I'm way off my goal. I have to figure out what I need to do to get back. I didn't feel good at all.
CAITLIN THOMAS

She was in Division II last year and they moved down this year. I guess that's a pretty good day. It...
CAITLIN THOMAS

Fearful as reality is, it is less fearful than evasions of reality. Look steadfastly into the slit, ...
CAITLIN THOMAS

You were constantly getting stuck at Dade City.
CAITLIN TANNER

You do your best and give the other person thumbs-up.
CAITLIN TANNER

I have more passion and fun doing quad racing.
CAITLIN TANNER

People think girls need to do ballet.
CAITLIN TANNER

As with all administrative matters, there are always several interest groups pulling for different v...
CAITLIN SULLIVAN

Irrespective of Saturday's weather, we definitely could have played better. Although we were absolut...
CAITLIN SULLIVAN

I think it's really important to get the kids to show their work to people.
CAITLIN SULLIVAN

We had a lot of pressure on us after going undefeated (in the regular season) last year. It was hard...
CAITLIN SULLIVAN

It's important to the students and it helps build relationships between teachers and students outsid...
CAITLIN SULLIVAN

I've been riding for a very long time, since I was five. I came here when I was eight or nine. When ...
CAITLIN SHIPE

Having a team makes it fun to come out here early though.
CAITLIN SHIPE

It's pretty subjective, we're judged. There are many different things that are judged. From beginnin...
CAITLIN SHIPE

We put in a lot of work to make this happen. Mrs. Thomas puts in lots of hours of work.
CAITLIN SHIPE

[To some youth, playing with gender identity and roles is as much about fun and self-expression as a...
CAITLIN RYAN

It's very important for self-esteem and for (gay youth) feeling their lives matter and are important...
CAITLIN RYAN

Gender has become part of the defining way that youth organise themselves and rebel against adults.
CAITLIN RYAN

I think the fluidity of gender is the next big wave in terms of adolescent development,
CAITLIN RYAN

I think the fluidity of gender is the next big wave in terms of adolescent development. Gender has b...
CAITLIN RYAN

It wouldn't be summer unless I came to the root beer stand.
CAITLIN RYAN

[To some youth, playing with gender identity and roles is as much about fun and self-expression as a...
CAITLIN RYAN

I was so shocked at the end. We didn't come expecting to lose. Next year, we're gonna be ready.
CAITLIN RYAN

The ones who are having a hard time are seeing only the gender rules and norms and how their kids ar...
CAITLIN RYAN

It was great to be in a race where the world record was set. We've achieved so much this week and it...
CAITLIN MCCLATCHEY

There was quite a lot of expectation on me before the event so I was just trying to get over the pre...
CAITLIN MCCLATCHEY

I'm just going to keep my head down and focus on the 400 now...and try not to get too carried away.
CAITLIN MCCLATCHEY

I just was hoping to get a medal and try to keep up with Libby and Mel because they go out pretty fa...
CAITLIN MCCLATCHEY

It was a bit of a shock. When I turned at the last 50 I knew I could win if I put my head down.
CAITLIN MCCLATCHEY

It's fantastic, I'm just so proud to be a Scot.
CAITLIN MCCLATCHEY

I'm feeling a bit run down but I'm putting it aside for the race.
CAITLIN MCCLATCHEY

It feels fantastic -- I can't believe it. I didn't even expect to win one gold medal so I'm overwhel...
CAITLIN MCCLATCHEY

(Miller) did an amazing job in this big of a venue. She didn't seem nervous at all.
CAITLIN HYDUKE

They were hitting their outside shots, we weren't playing really good defense for a while and our of...
CAITLIN HYDUKE

She played amazing defense and contributed a lot on offense, especially early. She hit some big shot...
CAITLIN HYDUKE

It used to be if you wanted something nice to wear, you would sew it yourself for your body type. Women before the 20th century didn't have this problem. Now, it seems we're all squeezed into random designs. They're designed for no one.

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It used to be if you wanted something nice to wear, you would sew it yourself for your body type. Women before the 20th century didn't have this problem. Now, it seems we're all squeezed into random designs. They're designed for no one.

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