March 2012
69 posts
HOLY MOTHER OF CHEESE does anyone have that Q article on the line? LOVE this blog by the way! You have the balance just right - not under-appreciative or creepy; it is FANGIRLY.
I spose, as I am now in Q Magazine, I will be going out and buying a copy of it tomorrow, so if no-one has it already (I couldn’t find it in a quick Google) then I’ll post some blurry photos tomorrow.
I’M GLAD YOU LIKE IT BECAUSE THIS IS NOT CREEPY. Seriously, I’m glad people like it. Warms my cockles…
Hey! I don't know if you already know, but there's a six page article about Caitlin Moran on this month's Q magazine and it mentions this Tumblr!!
Shit, are you kidding me?? I think I just felt my heartbeat in my teeth.
EDIT: I mean, er, thanks for letting me know, gentle reader.
“But believing in an afterlife totally negates your current existence. It’s like an insidious and destabilising mental illness. Underneath every day - every action, every word - you think it doesn’t really matter if you screw up this time because you can just sort it all out in paradise. You make it up with your parents, and become a better person and lose that final stone in Heaven. And learn how to speak French. You’ll have all time, after all! It’s eternity! And you’ll have wings and it’ll be sunny! So, really, who cares what you do now? This is just some lack-lustre waiting room you’re only going to be in for 20 minutes, during which you will have no wings at all and are forced to walk around, on your feet, like pigs do. If we wonder why people are so apathetic and casual about every eminently avoidable horror in the world - famine, war, disease, the seas gradually turning piss-yellow and filling with ringpulls and shattered fax machines - it’s right there. Heaven. The biggest waste of our time we ever invented, outside jigsaws. Only when the majority of people on this planet believe - absolutely - that they are dying, minute by minute, will we actually start behaving like fully sentient, rational and compassionate beings. For whilst the appeal of ‘being good’ is strong, the terror of hurtling, unstoppably, into an unending nullity is a lot more affective. When everyone in the world admits they’re going to die, we’ll really start getting some stuff done.”
—Caitlin Moran, How to be a Woman. (via allwellandgroovy)
“In times of political panic in America, they hoard guns, dried food and Bibles. We’re hoarding pasties, stamps and jerry-cans of unleaded.”
—Caitlin Moran on Twitter (via less-correcting-more-connecting)
psst, do you have any links to the audiobook? Isohunt seems to be empty. :/
I obviously cannot endorse the finding of free Moran through illegal means, HOWEVER, if you buy the audiobook from Audible through Amazon by signing up for their free trial, you get one free download. I used mine to get How to Be a Woman and then cancelled the Audible account.
You too can work the system and stick it to The Man HERE!
“If I’m honest, the handbag I would probably like most is a big, hollowed-out potato with handles on it. A giant King Edward with satchel straps. Then, in times of crisis, I could bake and eat the handbag, and survive the winter. That is the way of my people.”
—Caitlin Moran, How To Be A Woman (via xraycharles)
“These days, a plethora of shitty attitudes to women have become diffuse, indistinct or almost entirely concealed. Fighting them feels like trying to combat a mouldy, mildew smell in the hallway, using only a breadknife. Because - like racism, anti-Semitism and homophobia - modern sexism has become cunning. Sly. Codified. In the same way a closet racist would never dream of openly saying ‘nigger’ but might make a pointed reference to someone black having a natural rhythm, or liking fried chicken, so a closet misogynist has a vast array of words, comments, phrases and attitudes that they can employ to subtly put a woman down, or disconcert her, but without it being immediately apparent that that is what they are actually doing.”
—Caitlin Moran, How to Be A Woman (via xraycharles)
“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.”
—How To Be A Woman, Caitlin Moran (via doctorzhivago)
“If we ever wonder why people are so apathetic and casual about every eminently avoidable horror in the world…it’s right there. Heaven. The biggest waste of our time we ever invented, outside of jigsaws. Only when the majority of the people on this planet believe - absolutely - that they are dying, minute by minute, will we actually start behaving like fully entient, rational and compassionate beings.”
—Caitlin Moran, How to be a Woman (via mountainsoutofmolehills)
“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 majority of humankind’s miseries.”
—Caitlin Moran, How to be a Woman (via mountainsoutofmolehills)
“For most people [under the age of 40], they see that this is a time where what really makes a man ‘alpha’ is avoiding pugilism (the legal system is a drag, plus expensive), being amusing (we’re sitting on top of 50 years’ worth of amazing sitcoms. If you haven’t picked up a couple of techniques for cracking a joke by now, you look a trifle slow-witted), and, as a bonus, knowing how to reinstall Adobe AIR when Twitter goes down on your laptop. Speaking for all my lady friends, we all want some geeky, nerdy, polite and ridiculous mate who we can sit at home with, slagging off all the tossers, and waiting for our baked potatoes to be ready. Who, obviously, is additionally so hot for us he regularly crawls across the front room on his hands and knees, croaking, ‘I must have sex with you now, or go literally insane’. Compared to that, Prince Charming looks like a total donk.”
—Caitlin Moran, How To Be A Woman (via uppity-minx)
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Lines and greyness are nature’s way of telling you not to fuck with someone - the equivalent of the yellow and black banding on a wasp, or the markings on the back of a black widow spider. Lines are your weapons against idiots. Lines are your ‘KEEP AWAY FROM THE WISE INTOLERANT WOMAN’ sign.
When I get ‘old’ (59 - I reckon 59 is old) I personally intend to bomb around town with white hair fully two foot wide, looking like one of the Wild Women of Wonga, SHOUTING about how I can feel my cells dying, and ordering doubles to help me forget it. I’m not going to spend £50,000 on dying my hair, pumping up my tits, resurfacing my face and pretending I’m a dewy virgin shepherdess, off to seek my first tumble at the bridal fair.
” —Caitlin Moran, How to Be A Woman (via uppity-minx)