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, Boadicea, Joan of Arc - and you also, more often than not, show a girl a woman who was eventually crushed.

— Caitlin Moran

Galaxies of nothing are going onion her eyes.

— Caitlin Moran

Hearing women singing about themselves - rather than men singing about women - makes everything seem wonderfully clear, and possible

— Caitlin Moran

Heaven. The biggest waste of our time we ever invented, outside jigsaws.

— Caitlin Moran

He was bright, bright, bright, like a lantern above a pub door in November-he made you want to come in and never leave.

— Caitlin Moran

However, what I do believe in genuinely sacred - and, indeed, more useful to the earth as a whole - is trying to ensure that there are as few unbalanced, destructive people as possible. By whatever rationale you use, ending a pregnancy 12 weeks into gestation is incalculably more moral than bringing an unwanted child into this world. It's those unhappy, unwanted children, who then grew into angry adults, who have caused the great majority of humankind's miseries. They are the ones who make states feel feral; streets dangerous; relationships violent.

— Caitlin Moran

I am a massive slag!" I think to myself, in a motivational way. "I'm a Lady Sex Adventuress! I'm a Pirate of Privates! I'm a swashbuckler!" ... I think of "Teenage Whore" by Courtney Love as my personal anthem.

— Caitlin Moran

I am eating this noise like mouthfuls of freezing, glittering fog. I am filling with it. Furthermore, I am using it as energy. Because what you are, as a teenager, is a small, silver, empty rocket. And you use loud music as fuel, and then the information in books as maps and coordinates, to tell you where you're going.

— Caitlin Moran

I don't understand, then, why, in the midst of all this, pregnant women - women trying to make rational decisions about their futures and, usually, that of their families, too - should be subject to more pressure about preserving life than, say, Vladimir Putin, the World Bank, or the Catholic Church.

— Caitlin Moran

I don't want to sacrifice myself for something. I don't want to DIE for something. Furthermore, I don't even want to walk in the rain up a hill in a skirt that's sticking to my thighs for something. Furthermore, I want to live for something instead-as men do. Furthermore, I want to have fun. The most fun ever. I want to start partying like it's 1999, nine years early. I want a rapturous quest, I want to sacrifice myself to glee, I want to make the world better in some way.

— Caitlin Moran