Caitlin Moran Quotes
But when women are asked when they're going to have children, there is, in actually, another darker, more pertinent question lying underneath it.
Men and women alike have convinced themselves of a dragging belief: that somehow women are incomplete without having children.
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.
Abortions are never seen as a positive thing, as any other operation to remedy a potentially life-ruining condition would.
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.
Women's bodies do not give up their babies so easily, and so silently, is the message. The heart will always remember.
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.
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.
There. There you are. You have dropped a marker pin on your body, to reclaim yourself, to remind you where you are: inside yourself. Somewhere. Somewhere in there.
hearing women singing about themselves - rather than men singing about women - makes everything seem wonderfully clear, and possible
Because I haven't yet learned the simplest and most important thing of all: the world is difficult, and we are all breakable. So just be kind.
Always believe you can change the world – even if it’s only a tiny bit, because every tiny bit needed someone who changed it.
He was bright, bright, bright, like a lantern above a pub door in November- he made you want to come in and never leave.
Please wait for me. Don't have all the fun now. Don't fill up on other people who aren't me. Don't ruin your appetite.
In the end, I go where I always go when I need information on something baffling, poisonous, or terrifying: the library.
If I don't keep this job, then my only future career-options are working in Argos, or being a prostitute, ' I say, w
The word 'spinster' tells you everything you need to know about our attitude of women who choose not to marry.