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I'm SO glad I spent 10 years being sad and lonely.

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Caitlin Moran
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: April 5
Columnist
Film Producer
Journalist
Music Journalist
Writer
Brighton
England
Catherine Elizabeth Moran
Glad
Lonely
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Years

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I was brought up in the '80s. I was born in 1975. So by the time I got to 10 and I kind of knew that I probably was going to have to be a grown-up lady at some point, the feminine role models that I had were kind of the cast of Dynasty and Dallas. And I just found that terrifying.
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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.
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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.
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I do not... look very feminine. Diana, Princess of Wales is feminine... I am... femi-none.
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One of the great things about being a writer/journalist is that my boss loves me to go out and do features on being someone else. I did a feature on Kate Middleton, where I went to an incredible fancy state home in the countryside, put on a wedding dress and posed for engagement pictures with a fake Prince William.
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Batman doesn’t want a baby in order to feel he’s ‘done everything’. He’s just saved Gotham again! If this means that Batman must be a feminist role model above, say, Nicola Horlick, then so be it.
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A male feminist is one of the most glorious end-products of evolution.
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If you eat enough books, you start pooping out words.
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We need to reclaim the word feminism. We need to reclaim the word feminism real bad.
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It's always sunny above the clouds. Always. Every day on earth - every day I have ever had - was secretly sunny, after all.
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I love puffins. They are small, round gothic birds, and their babies are called pufflings.
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I can't think of anything I hate more than a former punk - they are the most self-righteous people in the world.
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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.
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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.
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It's just a horrible thing to keep saying to a woman, do you want a baby inside you? I mean, it's creepy.
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There are some women out there who are just going to look better with a mustache: that's statistics.
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I’m neither ‘pro-women’ nor ‘anti-men’. I’m just ‘Thumbs up for the six billion
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In the end I want to spend my 60s writing bonkbusters like Jilly Cooper.
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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.
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I don't want children anyway,' Caz says. 'So I'm getting nothing out of this whatsoever. I want my entire reproductive system taken out, and replaced with spare lungs, for when I start smoking. I want that option. This is pointless.
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