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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.

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Caitlin Moran
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: April 5
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Film Producer
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Brighton
England
Catherine Elizabeth Moran
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Feminism, as it stands, well... stands. It has ground to a halt.
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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.
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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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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.
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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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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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I can only work between the hours of 8:30 and 4:30, because that's when the kids are at school. So I get to do all my work and have all of my fun in that time, which means just sitting on a chair, typing, alternately clicking between writing a column and being on Twitter, and smoking as many cigarettes as I can before my lungs give out.
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For me, and I suspect a lot of socially awkward people, dealing with people face-to-face seems really traumatic. Particularly if you have massive sweating issues, and particularly if on top of that you have quite smelly sweat that smells like onion soup.
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Flyaway, problem hair is the enemy of feminism, and was probably invented by the Man to crush Susan Sontag.
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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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Heaven. The biggest waste of our time we ever invented, outside jigsaws.
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A 'sign of weakness' for a male celebrity is being found to be unfaithful, or unkind to an employee, or having crashed their car while stoned out of their tiny minds. A 'sign of weakness' for a woman, on the other hand, can be a single, unflattering picture.
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