Fuck Yeah Caitlin Moran

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July 2011

51 posts

“Oh, it makes women look like we were made to do it, by big boys. It makes us...”

– Caitlin Moran - How to be a Woman (via rwaral)

“Bitch, you can’t choose what the revolution looks like.”

– Caitlin Moran (Commenting on ‘older’ feminists’ objections to Slutwalks)

“[Masturbation] is amazing. It doesn’t cost anything, I don’t have to...”

– Caitlin Moran, How To Be a Woman.

“What is feminism? Simply the belief that women should be as free as men, however...”

– Caitlin Moran, How To Be A Woman (via letmeeatpears)

“so here is a quick way of working out if you’re a feminist. put your hand in...”

– caitlin moran (via sofiefr)

“On being hit with ‘Yeah, well, at least I’m not fat’ on two occasions, I tried...”

– ‘How To Be A Woman’, Caitlin Moran (via bardattheback)

“The relief of taking off a bad bra is immeasurable. It’s like a combination of...”

– Caitlin Moran, How To Be A Woman (via letmeeatpears) See, also: Sarah Millican on Bra Removal Time (#BRT). Ugh, the release.

Caitlin Moran Haiku

Funny, honest scribe Pokes fun at patriarchy We are feminists

Caitlin Moran Talks Twitter Spats, Clown Porn And... →

Caitlin Moran is really difficult to interview. Her mind is racing. She wants to talk about everything. One minute it’s Radiohead, then it’s lace leggings, then we’re back on the question, then we’re off again. It’s this giddy excitement that permeates her book on feminism - ‘How to be a Woman’. In the past few weeks she has found the time to...

“You have a certain … gravity,” [Hector] explains, as he bids [Bel] goodnight, in...”

– Caitlin Moran on The Hour in her Times tv column. (Behind the Times paywall, or for free on their iPhone app)

“I have - as with any other teenagers - the potential to take my place in the...”

– ‘How To Be A Woman’, Caitlin Moran (via bardattheback)

I'm going to Brighton on Friday. Caitlin Moran is...

chroniccheesylust: ^_^ FuckyeahCaitlinMoran suggests a meetup. And also at the Manchester talk on Thursday. High-five anyone who’ll be there!

Caitlin Moran's feminist handbook: Panel verdict →

theepitomeofquiet: Feminism should be as exciting as rock’n’roll, says Moran. Four writers share their views on her book, How to Be a Woman

“But what are strip clubs if not light entertainment versions of the entire...”

– Caitlin Moran, How To Be A Woman (via letmeeatpears)

jjasminetea: “What did I think The Hour was going to be? From the trailers, I thought that I knew. It seemed to be an open-and-shut case of the BBC going “Mad Men? Fast, clever, lavishly stylised period drama — that has been exported all over the world in a million boxed sets? That’s classic BBC territory! We should have been all over something like this like a pigeon on a chip! Knackers!...

MediaGuardian's top 100

Job: journalist, the Times Age: 36 Industry: publishing, digital media New entry To win one Press Award (critic of the year) is impressive, but to win a second (interviewer of the year) at the same event suggests that this has been Caitlin Moran’s year as a journalist. Chances are you are one of her nearly 100,000 Twitter followers, but chances are you have probably been forced to...

“I said this jokingly but I think it’s true: that it was the Spice Girls who...”

– Caitlin Moran (via droppingtheball)

“If you want to know what’s in motherhood for you, as a woman, then - in truth -...”

– How to be a Woman, Caitlin Moran (via aninsufferableknowitall)

Caitlin Moran TV Show?

Channel 4 is talking to Caitlin Moran about bringing the award winning Times columnist and author back to the broadcaster. In a MediaGuardian interview on Monday, Channel 4 chief creative officer Jay Hunt, confirmed that she was talking to Moran about fronting a TV show, but declined to disclose further details. “I discovered someone the other day who talks as fast as me, Caitlin ...

“But of course, the hiring of domestic help isn’t a case of women opressing other...”

– How To Be a Woman - Caitlin Moran on ‘mess’ (via stonedimmmaculate)

“‘Fortunately,’ she said, ‘the craze for Brazilians is abating. The hot new...”

– Caitlin Moran - How To Be a Woman (via octopuswig)

“If you can find a frock you look nice in and run up three flights of stairs,...”

– Caitlin Moran, How To Be a Woman (via tooclosetothefire)

“When a woman says, ‘I have nothing to wear!’, what she really means is, ‘There’s...”

– Caitlin Moran (via mikihatesgore)

Sigiriya: Patriarchy must be knackered by now... →

sigiriya: Rather humanely, you suggest that the patriarchy must be knackered by now, and we’d be doing it a favour to give it a rest. For you, humour seems to be the best way forward… “… if women just turned around and were honest and said I don’t give a shit, I’m not playing - I don’t care what…

On Twitter this week, two of country’s most high-profile columnists Caitlin Moran and Giles Coren have individually reported being in some way ‘blamed’ for Milly Dowler affair by readers, simply because they work for The Times, another of Rupert Murdoch’s papers. But even journalists of their power should not be held accountable for mistakes perpetrated by others who...

“The idea that pornography is intrinsically exploitative and sexist is bizarre:...”

– Caitlin Moran - How To Be A Woman Only about 60 pages in, but already considering making this mandatory reading for my potential children when they hit puberty. (via trivia-lad)

“I’m neither ‘pro-women’ nor ‘anti-men’. I’m just ‘Thumbs up for the six...”

– Caitlin Moran, How To Be A Woman (via josieitr)

“[W]hen a woman walks into a room, her outfit is the first thing she says, before...”

– Caitlin Moran - How to Be a Woman

Caitlin Moran's Fashion Advice:

elizabethlovatt: 7) You should never describe your look as being ‘mixture of high street and vintage’. Remember how angry it makes you when Fearne Cotton say it. Don’t let the abused become the abuser. - Caitlin Moran, How To Be a Woman, 2011

A Love Letter to Caitlin Moran →