110+ Caitlin Moran Quotes On Education, Friendship And Witty

Caitlin Moran is an English columnist, author, and broadcaster. She is best known for her weekly column in The Times, which she wrote from 1999 to 2012. She is also the author of the best-selling book How to Be a Woman. Following is our collection on famous quotes by Caitlin Moran on love, education, leadership.

Top 10 Caitlin Moran Quotes

1. We must recall the most important of humanity guidelines: Be polite. Being polite is possibly the greatest daily contribution everyone can make to life on Earth.
2. I love puffins. They are small, round gothic birds, and their babies are called pufflings.
3. The world is difficult and we are all breakable. So just be kind.
4. 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.
5. 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.
6. I want a Zero Tolerance policy on All The Patriarchal Bullshit.
7. I like a little bit of revolution. I think it's a very good hobby for a young woman. Better than squash.
8. It's always sunny above the clouds. Always. Every day on earth - every day I have ever had - was secretly sunny, after all.
9. If you are lying down to give birth, gravity is not helping you. You know, you stand up and, you know, a baby will basically kind of fall out of you, if you keep walking 'round.
10. We need to reclaim the word feminism. We need to reclaim the word feminism real bad.

Caitlin Moran Short Quotes

• I’m neither ‘pro-women’ nor ‘anti-men’. I’m just ‘Thumbs up for the six billion
• Why on earth have I, because I'm a woman, got to be nice to everyone?
• I've generally got low levels of embarrassment.
• I could have written a misery memoir and instead I tried to make it funny. I never complained.
• Self-harm - the world will come at you with knives anyway. You do not need to beat them to it.
• I wish I could learn that just three drinks is enough, but I have not learned that.
• You don't need to be legendary all the time. You can just be legendary for 10 minutes a day.
• Heaven. The biggest waste of our time we ever invented, outside jigsaws.
• Let's all go and be feminists in the pub.
• Watching 'Girls' has just given me renewed courage.

Caitlin Moran Quotes About Love

I told my girls, 'Look at Rihanna: She's one of the biggest pop stars in the world. She's really famous, really powerful, really rich. Yet in every single video she can only wear panties. Poor Rhianna! We'll know when she is properly powerful and successful when we see her in a lovely cardigan.' — Caitlin Moran

You just wanted to be normal. It wasn't even being beautiful. I just wanted to be smooth and thin and have, and you know, have beautiful glossy hair and lovely clothes and be able to walk in heels. And I thought that once I did all of that stuff that my life would begin. — Caitlin Moran

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! — Caitlin Moran

I am in love, and he's the one. Obviously I thought the one before him was the one and the one before that was the one, too. Frankly, I'm so much into the idea of being in love that anyone out of about 3 million could be the one. But no, this one now is definitely the one, the very one. — Caitlin Moran

But I am, personally, not a gambler. I wouldn’t spend £1 on the lottery, let alone take a punt on a pregnancy. The stakes are far, far too high. I can’t agree with a society that would force me to bet on how much I could love under duress. — Caitlin Moran

When I hear women talking about how their wedding is going to be/was the best day of their life, I can’t help but think, You just haven’t taken enough MDMA in a field at 3 a.m., love. — Caitlin Moran

To say that you have to carry to term and look after a child for the rest of your life is to say I force you, legally, to love someone. It's like saying, you know, you have to go and love another - you have to go - you know, you have to go marry someone. It's like an arranged marriage. — Caitlin Moran

Caitlin Moran Famous Quotes And Sayings

When I talk to girls, they go, 'I'm not a feminist.' And I say: 'What? You don't want to vote? Do you want to be owned by your husband? Do you want your money from your job to go into his bank account? If you were raped, do you still want that to be a crime? Congratulations : you are a feminist.' — Caitlin Moran

A library in the middle of a community is a cross between an emergency exit, a life raft and a festival. They are cathedrals of the mind; hospitals of the soul; theme parks of the imagination. On a cold, rainy island, they are the only sheltered public spaces where you are not a consumer, but a citizen, instead. — Caitlin Moran

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. Are you a feminist? Hahaha. Of course you are. — Caitlin Moran

I feel in my bones that Lady Gaga is a true strident feminist and good for my soul - but how do I square this with the fact that she's constantly walking around in her bra and pants, even at, like, airports and stuff, where even nudists wear a fleece and linen drawstring trousers? — Caitlin Moran

It's like if every single male artist dressed up as farmers. In every video they were on a farm. Whether it was Jason Derulo or Oasis, they're always on a tractor, they're always surrounded by sheep and always in boots. And all the songs are about enjoying farming, and this is all you've had for 10 years - you'd think you were going mad. — Caitlin Moran

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. When women find the right person, on the other hand, they just... disappear for six months, then resurface, eyes shiny, and usually about six pounds heavier. — Caitlin Moran

Whenever I see a taboo, I just think that's something we need to drag screaming out into the light and discuss. Because taboos are where our fears live, and taboos are the things that keep us tiny. Particularly for women. — Caitlin Moran

I have a rule for working out if the root problem of something is, in fact, sexism. And it is this: asking 'Are the boys doing it? Are the boys having to worry about this stuff? Are the boys the centre of a gigantic global debate on this subject? — Caitlin Moran

Always remember that, nine times out of ten, you probably aren’t having a full-on nervous breakdown – you just need a cup of tea and a biscuit. You’d be amazed how easily and repeatedly you can confuse the two. Get a big biscuit tin. — Caitlin Moran

When you say you're not a feminist, if feminism hadn't existed, and you didn't live in a feminist world, you wouldn't be saying that, because you'd be too busy scrubbing out the toilets in back while cooking up your husband's tea and dying in childbirth at the age of 34. — Caitlin Moran

A library in the middle of a community is a cross between an emergency exit, a life raft and a festival. — Caitlin Moran

Any action a woman engages in from a spirit of joy, and within a similarly safe and joyous environment, falls within the city-walls of feminism. A girl has a right to dance how she wants, when her favourite record comes on. — Caitlin Moran

The problem that we have is thinking there's only one kind of feminist, and that she's politically correct and right on at all times, wears flat shoes, doesn't wear makeup, probably doesn't have sex, is very angry, wears dungarees, is a vegetarian. — Caitlin Moran

I always give three pieces of advice to all the teenage girls when I do my talks: long country walks - it's important to get some fresh air in your lungs, and be in contact with your body; masturbation - it takes the edge off, it'll get you through; and the revolution - believing in changing the world. — Caitlin Moran

It's the silliness--the profligacy, and the silliness--that's so dizzying: a seven-year-old will run downstairs, kiss you hard, and then run back upstairs again, all in less than 30 seconds. It's as urgent an item on their daily agenda as eating or singing. It's like being mugged by Cupid. — Caitlin Moran

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. — Caitlin Moran

There are some women out there who are just going to look better with a mustache: that's statistics. — Caitlin Moran

It's actually technically impossible for a woman to argue against feminism. Without feminism, you wouldn't be allowed to have a debate on a woman's place in society. You'd be too busy giving birth on the kitchen floor, biting down on a wooden spoon so as not to disturb the men's card game, before going back to hoeing the rutabaga field. — Caitlin Moran

When you live in a small house with five younger siblings, it's actually far more sensible- and much quicker- to cry alone. — Caitlin Moran

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

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. — Caitlin Moran

I was brought up in the '80s. I was born in 1975. So by the time I got to 10 and I kind of knew that I probably was going to have to be a grown-up lady at some point, the feminine role models that I had were kind of the cast of "Dynasty" and "Dallas." And I just found that terrifying. — Caitlin Moran

A male feminist is one of the most glorious end-products of evolution. — Caitlin Moran

In my family, my fat family, none of us ever say the word 'fat.' 'Fat' is the word you hear shouted on the playground or in the street - it's never allowed over the threshold of the house. My mum won't have that filth in her house. At home together, we are safe. ... There will be no harm to our feelings here because we never acknowledge fat exists. We never refer to our size. We are the elephants in the room. — Caitlin Moran

As a former ballerina, I can't put down Maggie Shipstead's new book, Astonish Me. — Caitlin Moran

I am pathetically law-abiding. — Caitlin Moran

Once you've got a big feminist and political justification for talking about how you went round to Benedict Cumberbatch's house and did period all over his sofa, then there's no reason not to tell that anecdote in the middle of a dinner party. — Caitlin Moran

All art is someone trying to tell you something. — Caitlin Moran

Nowadays, to be frank, every week is a good week for freakshow television. we might start asking, Why are there so many freaks? And why do they all want to be on television? — Caitlin Moran

I do not... look very feminine. Diana, Princess of Wales is feminine... I am... femi-none. — Caitlin Moran

When you've got a mother who's given birth to eight children, you know, often without any kind of medical intervention - just she gave birth to one of my brothers sort of on the bedroom floor in front of all of us -you know, you see that women are fairly capable. — Caitlin Moran

Flyaway, problem hair is the enemy of feminism, and was probably invented by the Man to crush Susan Sontag. — Caitlin Moran

I'm SO glad I spent 10 years being sad and lonely. — Caitlin Moran

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

I wish I could give up smoking, but it does taste so delicious. — Caitlin Moran

It's really best not to tell people when you feel bad. Growing up is about keeping secrets, and pretending everything is fine. — Caitlin Moran

I know people go on about Twitter, but it is amazing. It's whatever you want it to be, and all the women got in there before the boys. — Caitlin Moran

Feminism, as it stands, well... stands. It has ground to a halt. — Caitlin Moran

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

A 'sign of weakness' for a male celebrity is being found to be unfaithful, or unkind to an employee, or having crashed their car while stoned out of their tiny minds. A 'sign of weakness' for a woman, on the other hand, can be a single, unflattering picture. — Caitlin Moran

Who doesn't have a friend who worships her lover with a passion that seems baffling to everyone that knows them? Before you met him for the first time, she'd talked him up like he was a cross between Indiana Jones, Barack Obama and The Doctor. When you finally meet him, he's a quiet little thing who looks like a baked bean in glasses, and actually says 'harumph' as spelt. — Caitlin Moran

I hate that tabloid idea of anybody who is famous having to forfeit their privacy. — Caitlin Moran

I think it's a really important thing for women to be able to just put their hands up and go, I can't actually do any more. — Caitlin Moran

I had given up on being beautiful. But I thought I could kind of inspire boys to write songs about me. So I became a music journalist at the age of 16. — 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 stage plays. — Caitlin Moran

I can only work between the hours of 8:30 and 4:30, because that's when the kids are at school. So I get to do all my work and have all of my fun in that time, which means just sitting on a chair, typing, alternately clicking between writing a column and being on Twitter, and smoking as many cigarettes as I can before my lungs give out. — Caitlin Moran

Never love someone whom you think you need to mend – or who makes you feel like you should be mended. There are boys out there who look for shining girls; they will stand next to you and say quiet things in your ear that only you can hear and that will slowly drain the joy out of your heart. The books about vampires are true, baby. Drive a stake through their hearts and run away. — Caitlin Moran

Benedict Cumberbatch is very beautiful. — Caitlin Moran

The problem with battling yourself is that even if you win, you lose. — Caitlin Moran

If you do it properly, life is art, really. — Caitlin Moran

I am not good at small talk. I will hide in a cupboard to avoid chitty-chat. — Caitlin Moran

If you read all your history books, there are no women in them. — Caitlin Moran

It's just a horrible thing to keep saying to a woman, do you want a baby inside you? I mean, it's creepy. — Caitlin Moran

I read something once that when you're online, your inhibitions are lowered to the state where you've had three drinks. Once you basically know that the entire internet is slightly drunk, it all makes a lot more sense, and you deport yourself accordingly. — Caitlin Moran

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. — Caitlin Moran

For me, and I suspect a lot of socially awkward people, dealing with people face-to-face seems really traumatic. Particularly if you have massive sweating issues, and particularly if on top of that you have quite smelly sweat that smells like onion soup. — Caitlin Moran

Women are feminist by default. — Caitlin Moran

Life divides into amazing enjoyable times and appalling experiences that will make future amazing anecdotes. — Caitlin Moran

If anyone was going to write a song or, you know, or a book, or make a film about a girl like me, it was going to have to be a girl like me, and quite literally, me. — Caitlin Moran

If you've been fat, you will always feel and see the world as a fat person; you know how difficult it is... It's the same coming from a working-class background... it never leaves you. — Caitlin Moran

...there is the sheer emotional, intellectual, physical, chemical pleasure of your children. The honest truth is that the world holds no greater gratification than lying in bed with your children, putting your leg on top of them in a semi-crushing manner, while saying sternly, "You are a poo. — Caitlin Moran

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. — Caitlin Moran

Just proportionately, statistically, one in three women are going to have an abortion. They're not all going to feel guilty. — Caitlin Moran

You are educated equally to boys. You're expected to go into equal employment with boys. In a marriage, you are legally equal. So, you know, you cannot deny we live in a feminist world. — Caitlin Moran

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

I can't think of anything I hate more than a former punk - they are the most self-righteous people in the world. — Caitlin Moran

The word spinster tells you everything that you need to know about our attitude of women who choose not to marry, yes. — Caitlin Moran

I think that instead of feminism being a political thing, it should be an act of creativity. It's more of a rock n' roll thing. — Caitlin Moran

I think loads of women have this idea that their life is going to start at some point, once they've busted all these problems of being a woman, once we're thin and we're pretty and we've got all of our clothes and stuff, that's when our life will begin. And you meet people at 48 who are still thinking that, and 58. — Caitlin Moran

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. — Caitlin Moran

You should write, write, write every day, and learn to edit and pare it right back so you're proud of every sentence, and each one is either being useful or beautiful, but hopefully both. — Caitlin Moran

In the end I want to spend my 60s writing bonkbusters like Jilly Cooper. — 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 eat enough books, you start pooping out words. — Caitlin Moran

I was brought up in a kind of, you know, very hippie, liberal family. And it was just always automatically assumed that men and women were equal and indeed superior. — Caitlin Moran

When Rudy Giuliani became mayor of New York in 1993, his belief in the 'Broken Windows' theory led him to implement the 'Zero Tolerance' crime policy. Crime dropped dramatically, significantly, and continued to for the next ten years. Personally, I feel the time has come for women to introduce their own Zero Tolerance policy on the Broken Windows issues in our lives - I want a Zero Tolerance policy on 'All The Patriarchal Bullshit'. — Caitlin Moran

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

Never feel this bad again. Never come back to this place, where only a knife will do. Live a gentle and kind life. Don't do things that make you want to hurt yourself. — Caitlin Moran

You think it doesn't really matter if you screw up this time around because you can just sort it all out in paradise — Caitlin Moran

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. — Caitlin Moran

For throughout history, you can read the stories of women who - against all the odds - got being a woman right, but ended up being compromised, unhappy, hobbled or ruined, because all around them, society was still wrong. Show a girl a pioneering hero - Sylvia Plath, Dorothy Parker, Frida Kahlo, Cleopatra, Boudicca, Joan of Arc - and you also, more often than not, show a girl a woman who was eventually crushed. — Caitlin Moran

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

But nearly every woman I know has a roughly similar story - in fact, dozens of them: stories about being obsessed with a celebrity, work colleague or someone they vaguely knew for years; living in a parallel world in their head; conjuring up endless plots and scenarios for this thing that never actually happened. — Caitlin Moran

I come from grunge, and then Brit-pop, scenes where you boast about how little you spent on an outfit. ... Now, it seems you must find The Dress, then The Dress needs to have The Belt, and a complementary but not overly-matching bag must be found which works with not only the correct hosiery, but with something to throw over yourself if you become chilly. — Caitlin Moran

One of the great things about being a writer/journalist is that my boss loves me to go out and do features on being someone else. I did a feature on Kate Middleton, where I went to an incredible fancy state home in the countryside, put on a wedding dress and posed for engagement pictures with a fake Prince William. — Caitlin Moran

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

Life Lessons by Caitlin Moran

1. Caitlin Moran's work emphasizes the importance of standing up for yourself and speaking out against injustice. She encourages readers to be confident in their own opinions and to challenge the status quo.
2. Moran also emphasizes the value of self-care and taking time to look after yourself. She encourages readers to prioritize their mental and physical health and to be kind to themselves.
3. Finally, Moran's work highlights the importance of intersectional feminism, and she encourages readers to be aware of their own privilege and to listen to and amplify the voices of those who are less privileged.