Top 200 Caitlin Moran Quotes (2026 Update)
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51. “I am getting incredibly high on a single, astounding fact: that it’s always sunny above the clouds. Always. That every day on earth – every day I have ever had – was secretly sunny, after all.”

— Caitlin Moran

52. “I hate that tabloid idea of anybody who is famous having to forfeit their privacy.”

— Caitlin Moran

53. “I hate stories where the conclusion is that women just have to suffer and get stronger,” Julia said. “Those are the worst stories.”

— Caitlin Moran

54. “Their lives are the same for generations. There is no social upheaval that will really affect them. If you’re comfortably middle-class, what’s the worst a government policy could do? Ever? Tax you at 90 percent and leave your bins unemptied on the pavement. But you and everyone you know will continue to drink wine – but maybe cheaper – go on holiday – but somewhere nearer – and pay off your mortgage – although maybe later.”

— Caitlin Moran

55. “Musicals are strictly for homosexuals and womenfolk,” Kenny says drily, in a way that’s so post-post-post-ironic it actually stops being communication, and simply becomes confusing and unhelpful.”

— Caitlin Moran

56. “Show a girl a pioneering hero – Sylvia Plath, Dorothy Parker, Frida Kahlo, Cleopatra, Boudicca, Joan of Arc – and you also, more often than not, show a girl a woman who was eventually crushed.”

— Caitlin Moran

57. “A book is a beautiful, paper mausoleum, or tomb, in which to store ideas... to keep the bones of your thoughts in one place, for all time. I just want to say... “Hello. We can hear you. The words survived.”

— Caitlin Moran

58. “Going blind every time you drain a boiling pan of pasta, because it steams up your glasses real bad.”

— Caitlin Moran

59. “We should have the lady-balls to say, “Yeah – I like the look of this world. And I’ve been here for a good while, watching. Now – here’s how I’d tweak it. Because we’re all in this together. We’re all just, you know. The Guys.”

— Caitlin Moran

60. “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.”

— Caitlin Moran

61. “Death is not a release, but an incentive. The more focused you are on your death, the more righteously you live your life.”

— Caitlin Moran

62. “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.”

— Caitlin Moran

63. “It was the Spice Girls who messed it all up. And obviously, the appropriating of the phrase “girl power”, which at that point overrode any notion of feminism, and which was a phrase that meant absolutely nothing apart from being friends with your girlfriends.”

— Caitlin Moran

64. “When you talk to a young teenage girl, they’re just full of self-loathing. The reason they feel self-loathing is they don’t feel normal. It is a world that has not been built for them. It’s been built for men, and that’s why they feel bad.”

— Caitlin Moran

65. “The kind of classic pose of a female model is to look kind of sexy and a bit annoyed.”

— Caitlin Moran

66. “Life divides into amazing enjoyable times and appalling experiences that will make future amazing anecdotes.”

— Caitlin Moran

67. “When a woman walks into a room, her outfit is the first thing she says, before she even opens her mouth. Women are judged on what they wear in a way men would find incomprehensible.”

— Caitlin Moran

68. “I love puffins. They are small, round gothic birds, and their babies are called pufflings.”

— Caitlin Moran

69. “I wish I could give up smoking, but it does taste so delicious.”

— Caitlin Moran

70. “I am in love, and he’s the one. Obviously I thought the one before him was the one and the one before that was the one, too. Frankly, I’m so much into the idea of being in love that anyone out of about 3 million could be the one. But no, this one now is definitely the one, the very one.”

— Caitlin Moran

71. “The problem with battling yourself is that even if you win, you lose.”

— Caitlin Moran

72. “A male feminist is one of the most glorious end-products of evolution.”

— Caitlin Moran

73. “I have read more about Oprah Winfrey’s ass than I have about the rise of China as an economic superpower. I fear this is no exaggeration. Perhaps China is rising as an economic superpower because its women aren’t spending all their time reading about Oprah Winfrey’s ass.”

— Caitlin Moran

74. “I cannot understand antiabortion arguments that center on the sanctity of life. As a species, we’ve fairly comprehensively demonstrated that we don’t believe in the sanctity of life. The shrugging acceptance of war, famine, epidemic, pain, and lifelong, grinding poverty show us that, whatever we tell ourselves, we’ve made only the most feeble of efforts to really treat human life as sacred.”

— Caitlin Moran

75. “I told my girls, ‘Look at Rihanna: She’s one of the biggest pop stars in the world. She’s really famous, really powerful, really rich. Yet in every single video she can only wear panties. Poor Rhianna! We’ll know when she is properly powerful and successful when we see her in a lovely cardigan.’”

— Caitlin Moran

76. “I am not good at small talk. I will hide in a cupboard to avoid chitty-chat.”

— Caitlin Moran

77. “You are midwife to yourself, and will give birth to yourself, over and over, in dark rooms, alone.”

— Caitlin Moran

78. “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.”

— Caitlin Moran

79. “You can be whatever you want – so long as you’re sure it’s what you actually want, rather than one of two equally dodgy choices foisted onto you.”

— Caitlin Moran

80. “This is what happens, when it feels like the weight of the world is crushing right down on you. You fear it’s going to change you forever. And you’re right. It is. It’s going to turn you into something that is both beautiful, and the most indestructible thing on the planet. I am both touched, and amused, by how apt its name is: Hope. “I relate to you,” I say to the Hope Diamond, as I stand there, staring at it. “I get what you are saying. You are the sparkliest metaphor I have ever seen.”

— Caitlin Moran

81. “Once you’ve got a big feminist and political justification for talking about how you went round to Benedict Cumberbatch’s house and did period all over his sofa, then there’s no reason not to tell that anecdote in the middle of a dinner party.”

— Caitlin Moran

82. “So what do you do when you build yourself up – only to realise you built yourself with the wrong things?”

— Caitlin Moran

83. “You don’t need to be legendary all the time. You can just be legendary for 10 minutes a day.”

— Caitlin Moran

84. “And, like all the best quests, in the end, I did it all for a girl: me.”

— Caitlin Moran

85. “The next few weeks are some of the worst of my life, because I have discovered something amazing: that some people aren’t just people, but a place – a whole world. Sometimes you find someone you could live in for the rest of your life.”

— Caitlin Moran

86. “Feminism means something – legislation, cultural change – but ‘Girl Power’ meant nothing more than being friends with your friends.”

— Caitlin Moran

87. “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.”

— Caitlin Moran

88. “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.”

— Caitlin Moran

89. “Whenever I see a taboo, I just think that’s something we need to drag screaming out into the light and discuss. Because taboos are where our fears live, and taboos are the things that keep us tiny. Particularly for women.”

— Caitlin Moran

90. “I’ve got more friends than I’ve ever had in my life at the age of 39 – although given that I didn’t have any friends until the age of 27, it doesn’t say much – because I found the internet.”

— Caitlin Moran

91. “I like a little bit of revolution. I think it’s a very good hobby for a young woman. Better than squash.”

— Caitlin Moran

92. “I have no idea what cunnilingus is – certainly no one I’ve met in Wolverhampton can afford it.”

— Caitlin Moran

93. “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.”

— Caitlin Moran

94. “I feel in my bones that Lady Gaga is a true strident feminist and good for my soul – but how do I square this with the fact that she’s constantly walking around in her bra and pants, even at, like, airports and stuff, where even nudists wear a fleece and linen drawstring trousers?”

— Caitlin Moran

95. “Let’s all go and be feminists in the pub.”

— Caitlin Moran

96. “My favourite place in the world – the south beach at Aberystwyth -has a sewage outfall pipe on it.”

— Caitlin Moran

97. “Friends, we live in a caffeine world. We think in a caffeine way and we live caffeine lives.”

— Caitlin Moran

98. “I can’t think of anything I hate more than a former punk – they are the most self-righteous people in the world.”

— Caitlin Moran

99. “John Kite was the first person I’d ever met who made me feel normal. That when i talked “too much,” it was not the point where you walked away, going, “You’re weird, Johanna,” or “Shut up, Johanna” – but that was when the conversation actually got good. The more ridiculous things I said – the more astonishing things I confessed – the more he roared with laughter, or slapped the table and said: “That is exactly how it is, you outrageous item.”

— Caitlin Moran

100. “Strip clubs let everyone down. Men and women approach their very worst here.”

— Caitlin Moran