Caitlin Moran, How To Be A Woman Quotes
When a woman says, ‘I have nothing to wear!’, what she really means is, ‘There’s nothing here for who I’m supposed to be today.
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.
But as the years went on, I realised that what I really want to be, all told, is a human. Just a productive, honest, courteously treated human.
Heaven. The biggest waste of our time we ever invented, outside jigsaws.
You can always tell when a woman is with the wrong man, because she has so much to say about the fact that nothing's happening.
Feminism has had exactly the same problem that "political correctness" has had: people keep using the phrase without really knowing what it means.
The people around you are mirrors, I think. You see yourself reflected in their eyes. If the mirror is true, and smooth, you see your true self. That’s how you learn who you are.
The problem with battling yourself is that even if you win, you lose.
But when women are asked when they're going to have children, there is, in actually, another darker, more pertinent question lying underneath it.
You stop talking about things when you’ve worked them out. You’re no longer an observer but a participant. You’re too busy for this bullshit.
And the question is always "When are you going to have kids?" Rather than "Do you want to have kids?
... motherhood is a game you must enter with as much energy, willingness, and happiness as possible.
It makes you love vividly, work intensely, and realize that, in the scheme of things, you really don't have time to sit on the sofa in your undies watching Homes Under the Hammer.
Personally, I feel the time has come for women to introduce their own Zero Tolerance policy on the Broken Window issues in our lives - I want a Zero Tolerance policy on "All the Patriarchal Bullshit.
But women living in fear of aging, and pulling painful and expensive tricks to hide it from the world, does not say something amazing about us as humans.
Women's bodies do not give up their babies so easily, and so silently, is the message. The heart will always remember.
The idea that I might not-- in an earlier era, or a different country-- have a choice in the matter seems both emotionally and physically barbaric.
Abortions are never seen as a positive thing, as any other operation to remedy a potentially life-ruining condition would.
In the 21st century, it can't be about who we might make, and what they might do, anymore. It has to be about who we are and what we're going to do.
Men and women alike have convinced themselves of a dragging belief: that somehow women are incomplete without having children.
Women are always being asked when they're going to have children. It's a question they're asking even more often.
Life is really the only place you can learn the most important lessons about how to get dressed and to be happy.
For a woman, every outfit is a hopeful spell, cast to influence the outcome of the day. An act of trying to predict your fate, like looking at your horoscope.
Amnesty International Survey found that 25 percent of people believe a woman is to blame for being raped if she dresses "provocatively.
The actual handbag is neither here nor there-- it's what you keep in it that's the most important thing.
Not one had ever passed judgement on my cheap handbag to my face. But then, this is a reserved country.
Women wear heels because they think they make their legs look thinner.
We're supposed to speak from the heart in what we wear. We have to find capsule wardrobes.
Strip clubs let everyone down. Men and women approach their very worst here.
The reason they don't ask me when they're having kids, of course, is because men can, pretty much, carry on a normal life once they've had a baby.
When a woman walks into a room, her outfit is the first thing she says, before she even opens her mouth. Women are judged on what they wear in a way men would find incomprehensible.
Batman doesn’t want a baby in order to feel he’s ‘done everything’. He’s just saved Gotham again! If this means that Batman must be a feminist role model above, say, Nicola Horlick, then so be it.
