Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
It's just a horrible thing to keep saying to a woman, do you want a baby inside you? I mean, it's creepy.
Flyaway, problem hair is the enemy of feminism, and was probably invented by the Man to crush Susan Sontag.
Life divides into amazing enjoyable times and appalling experiences that will make future amazing anecdotes.
The word 'spinster' tells you everything you need to know about our attitude of women who choose not to marry.
I can't think of anything I hate more than a former punk - they are the most self-righteous people in the world.
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.
You can crush any woman by suggesting that she's fat, not even saying the word 'fat' but just suggesting she's fat.
You think it doesn't really matter if you screw up this time around because you can just sort it all out in paradise
The word spinster tells you everything that you need to know about our attitude of women who choose not to marry, yes.
When you live in a small house with five younger siblings, it's actually far more sensible- and much quicker- to cry alone.
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.
It's always sunny above the clouds. Always. Every day on earth - every day I have ever had - was secretly sunny, after all.
Just proportionately, statistically, one in three women are going to have an abortion. They're not all going to feel guilty.
It's really best not to tell people when you feel bad. Growing up is about keeping secrets, and pretending everything is fine.
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.
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 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.
Mental health is seen as a massive drag to have to write about - worthy, dull. Something you should 'have' to read / write about.
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.
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.
Feminism means something - legislation, cultural change - but 'Girl Power' meant nothing more than being friends with your friends.
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.
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.
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!
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.
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.
I don't campaign for the end of the aristocracy or the upper classes; I don't really want to destroy anything at all. I just want more plurality.
Feminism has had exactly the same problem that "political correctness" has had: people keep using the phrase without really knowing what it means.
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.
People get really scared when women reclaim words, talk about themselves honestly and also make jokes because it's a really unstoppable combination.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
I am fully aware of what the word 'fat' means ... It's a swear word. It's a weapon. It's a sociological subspecies. It's an accusation, dismissal, and rejection.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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 genuinely miss writing now on the rare days I don't write; my mouth waters when I think about writing, and I have an extreme physical reaction to the idea of doing it.
All the things that are taboo are the things that are not normal, and all the things that are not normal are the things that are exclusively about physically being a woman.
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?
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.
The people around you are mirrors, I think. You see yourself reflected in their eyes. If the mirror is true, and smooth, you see your true self. That’s how you learn who you are.
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.'
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.
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.