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All Quotes by author - Caitlin Moran

" As far as I'm concerned, you're a feminist by default if you're born in the Western world right now. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" I can't live in a world where there are only, like, four kinds of women. Or where every woman is obsessed with cake. The very least I ask is that we have one female character in the world who likes savory things! I don't have any role models who like cheese! "

" I don't regret not going to college. Students learn up to the age of 21, then stop. I'll always be learning - the things that really matter in life. How to sign on, how to get free food, how to be streetwise. "

" I don't think that women being seen as inferior is a prejudice based on male hatred of women. When you look at history, it's a prejudice based on simple fact. "

" If every woman who's had an abortion took tomorrow off in protest, America would grind to a halt. And that would be symbolic: because women grind to a halt if they are not in control of their fertility. "

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

" I loved Riot Grrl. Not only was it a punk rock revolution, but it meant you could get dressed for a night out for less than two pounds! "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" My core belief is that if you're complaining about something for more than three minutes, two minutes ago you should have done something about it. "

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

" 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. "

" The first thing to improve society is not banning abortion, but making sure that everyone who had a child is in the best position to be able to rear it. "

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

" The word 'spinster' tells you everything you need to know about our attitude of women who choose not to marry. "

" Twitter means all my friends are in my computer. All my ideas are in my computer. I can do whatever I want in there; I'm kind of... bionic. "

" 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. "

" When my children say, 'In the future, Mummy, will things get better or worse for humanity?' I say: 'Who knows, since Amy Winehouse died. It's all in the air now. Eat your broccoli.' "

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