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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.

- Caitlin Moran

Used, Wear, Before, Sew

When I learned that flour pound for pound has as many calories as sugar, and that when eating pasta you're basically eating cake, I was size 23, and my neck was restricting my breathing, and so I got on a microbiotic diet and got myself an exercise bike.

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Bike, Exercise, Got, Restricting

In the early '90s, it was grunge; everybody was fully clothed. Alanis Morissette was one of the biggest artists in the world, never wore makeup, wearing Doc Marten boots, and then the Spice Girls turn up, and suddenly it all looks a bit burlesque; suddenly they're the biggest band in the world.

- Caitlin Moran

Makeup, Spice, Everybody, Grunge

Every woman who chooses - joyfully, thoughtfully, calmly, of their own free will and desire - not to have a child does womankind a massive favour in the long term.

- Caitlin Moran

Woman, Desire, Will, Joyfully

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

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Think, I Think, Very, Hobby

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

- Caitlin Moran

Best, Want, Oprah, Tina

I can honestly say that my abortion was one of the least difficult decisions of my life. I'm not being flippant when I say it took me longer to decide what worktops to have in the kitchen than whether I was prepared to spend the rest of my life being responsible for a further human being.

- Caitlin Moran

My Life, Abortion, Prepared, Difficult Decisions

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

- Caitlin Moran

Heroes, Susan, Biggest, Simultaneously

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

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Children, Hippies, Were, Eldest

The idea of not being able to control my own fertility genuinely terrifies me. That one mistake might change your life. That everything I am, and do, could be ended by the repeal of laws our mothers fought so hard for, that women had waited for the entire span of humanity to come about.

- Caitlin Moran

Own, Idea, Fought, Waited

What is feminism? Simply the belief that women should be as free as men, however nuts, dim, deluded, badly dressed, fat, receding, lazy, and smug they might be.

- Caitlin Moran

Lazy, However, Badly, Smug

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.

- Caitlin Moran

Shoes, Amazing Things, Then, Ruined

In the U.K., we have a paper called 'The Daily Mail,' which is quite misogynist. And every day, it just writes pieces about: 'Women, you're going to die now! Women, here's shoes that give you cancer! Women, just hate yourselves!'

- Caitlin Moran

Die, Here, Mail, Writes

I remember, around age three, peas growing in the back garden. Pinching them from their pods and popping them in the mouth was my first realisation that food came from somewhere other than a shelf.

- Caitlin Moran

I Remember, Other, Popping, Garden

I say this in the spirit of feminist encouragement, but I think I'm pretty hot. I've got all the facial features, facing the right way, at the right end, and you can always paint over the bad bits with makeup.

- Caitlin Moran

Makeup, Bad, I Think, Right Way

People get really scared when women reclaim words, talk about themselves honestly and also make jokes because it's a really unstoppable combination.

- Caitlin Moran

Words, About, Honestly, Unstoppable

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

- Caitlin Moran

Living, Never, Council, Telly

I'm quite British; I've got big, flat feet, and I can't wear heels. I've got very, very pale Celtic skin, so my legs are always a frightening blue color. So when you take out clothes that reveal your legs, shoes that have any kind of heel, no shop will actually take my money.

- Caitlin Moran

Feet, Big, Very, Heel

Over-eating is the addiction choice of carers, and that's why it's come to be regarded as the lowest-ranking of all the addictions.

- Caitlin Moran

Addiction, Why, Regarded, Addictions

I've learnt that you tend most to make a div of yourself when you're trying to cover up the fact that you don't know what you're doing. And that simply saying 'I don't know what I'm doing' is a massive relief.

- Caitlin Moran

Doing, Fact, Most, Relief

The thing is, one in three women in the Western world will end up having an abortion, but they never talk about it. When you keep silent about that stuff, it is because you are embarrassed by the societal distaste of the topic.

- Caitlin Moran

Abortion, Embarrassed, About, Societal

I don't think there should be anything that women are embarrassed to talk about in the 21st century, because for the last 100,000 years, men have said everything that's on their minds and described everything they have done.

- Caitlin Moran

Embarrassed, Years, About, 21st Century

I once went into a meeting, and every woman put her a million-pound bag on the table. Then I'm there with my tote bag and anorak. And I'm like, well, I'm still the most important person in the room right now.

- Caitlin Moran

Woman, Bag, Put, Table

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

- Caitlin Moran

Want, Like, Spend, Cooper

I never wanted to be famous. It was amusing at first, but now I hate it. I just wanted to be respected by people I respect. And I wanted to be rich. It's best to get rich, then you can do what you want.

- Caitlin Moran

Famous, Want, Rich, Amusing

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

- Caitlin Moran

Health, About, Read, Drag

I think there are brilliant jokes to be made about abortion, and we should be able to talk about this in the way that we make jokes about death - you should be able to make jokes about everything.

- Caitlin Moran

Think, Brilliant, I Think, Jokes

I don't campaign for the end of the aristocracy or the upper classes; I don't really want to destroy anything at all. I just want more plurality.

- Caitlin Moran

More, Upper, Classes, Aristocracy

Feminism means something - legislation, cultural change - but 'Girl Power' meant nothing more than being friends with your friends.

- Caitlin Moran

More, Meant, Means, Legislation

The doughy-faced woman has been forced to sit on the sidelines of culture for too long, and it's now time for us to stand up with our big round faces like the moon and say we have things to say, too. We have a round-faced agenda we want to push.

- Caitlin Moran

Woman, Big, Been, Sidelines

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