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.Collection: Learning
The word 'spinster' tells you everything you need to know about our attitude of women who choose not to marry.Collection: Attitude
I'm so glad I spent 10 years being sad and lonely.Collection: Sad
Watching 'Girls' has just given me renewed courage.Collection: Courage
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.Collection: Wedding
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.Collection: Diet
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 love puffins. They are small, round gothic birds, and their babies are called pufflings.
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.
People get really scared when women reclaim words, talk about themselves honestly and also make jokes because it's a really unstoppable combination.
If you're not a confident person, pretend to be one.
Mental health is seen as a massive drag to have to write about - worthy, dull. Something you should 'have' to read / write about.
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.
There are 3 billion women in the world, so there are 3 billion ways to be a feminist.
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.
Once you become poor, tired and time-constrained, you become a much better human being.
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.
I do not... look very feminine. Diana, Princess of Wales is feminine... I am... femi-none.
Flyaway, problem hair is the enemy of feminism, and was probably invented by the Man to crush Susan Sontag.
I've generally got low levels of embarrassment.
I am not good at small talk. I will hide in a cupboard to avoid chitty-chat.
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.
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.
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.
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!
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.
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.
I just want Tina Fey to be my best friend. And Lena Dunham. And Oprah, too.
Feminism, as it stands, well... stands. It has ground to a halt.
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.
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.
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.
As far as I'm concerned, you're a feminist by default if you're born in the Western world right now.
Feminism means something - legislation, cultural change - but 'Girl Power' meant nothing more than being friends with your friends.
We think of feminism as an academic subject, but it's not. If you think feminism is academic, you think there's a right or wrong.
If you can find a frock you look nice in and can run up three flights of stairs, you're not fat.
Telly never has any smart, amusing intellectuals living on a council estate.
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.'
My parents were hippies. I'm the eldest of eight children.
When I saw 'Pretty In Pink' at the cinema at the age of 11, I just thought it was a period piece from maybe 100 years previously. I had no idea that was what everybody was supposed to be wearing.
You can crush any woman by suggesting that she's fat, not even saying the word 'fat' but just suggesting she's fat.
I see feminism as a massive party. It's cool, the idea that 50% of the population can now start doing things and having fun and experimenting with their hair and makeup.
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.
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.
You can be socially accepted and tell the truth about what it is to be a woman.
The revolution doesn't always look perfect.
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.
Simultaneously, my two biggest heroes are Susan Sontag and Morticia Addams from 'The Addams Family.'
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 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.