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The reason they don't ask me when they're having kids, of course, is because men can, pretty much, carry on a normal life once they've had a baby.

I could have written a misery memoir and instead I tried to make it funny. I never complained.

First world babies are eating this planet like termites.

It's really best not to tell people when you feel bad. Growing up is about keeping secrets, and pretending everything is fine.

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.

Most women I know love the idea of fashion, but the practicalities that go with it are just distressing.

Feminism means something - legislation, cultural change - but 'Girl Power' meant nothing more than being friends with your friends.

I sit at my desk, and I do not know where the words are hidden!

After all, everyone is bisexual after 11pm.

Why on earth have I, because I'm a woman, got to be nice to everyone?

As a former ballerina, I can't put down Maggie Shipstead's new book, Astonish Me.

This is where rock happens! This is where young people come! Rock music smells of toilet and cigarettes!

People with no upper-body strength, who read poetry. These are my people.

Shit," he says helplessly. "No - piss," I say, like Oscar fucking Wilde.

I wish I was Bill Murray. I hope everything I've read about evolution is wrong, and I eventually evolve into him. It's one of only three plans I have.

Our world is afflicted by poverty. Don't spend all this money on clothes!

Diana, Princess of Wales is feminine. Kylie Minogue is feminine. I am . . . femi-none.

Parents drinking is the reason you came into the world, and if we didn't keep doing it then, by God, it would be the reason you went back out of it.

I am so tired. Tired--but so so so wired to the moon.

Why would I do that? Why would I put all this effort into pretending to be ... less than I am.

The more scared children are, the tighter they hug you.

Flyaway, problem hair is the enemy of feminism, and was probably invented by the Man to crush Susan Sontag.

He had his head in hand hands, and his tie looked like it had been put on by an enemy, and was strangling him.

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.

Between 60 and 80 percent of strippers come from a background of sexual abuse.

If you read all your history books, there are no women in them.

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

Not one had ever passed judgement on my cheap handbag to my face. But then, this is a reserved country.

The revolution doesn't always look perfect.

I do not ... look very feminine. Diana, Princess of Wales is feminine ... I am ... femi-none.

When God gives you no lemons - make nonmonade!

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

I guess the men of Iceland will have to get used to the idea that women are not for sale," ~ Gudrun Jonsdottir

Like books before them, each of these songs, I know, could in the end prove to be the thing I need: a way out. A place to go.

Women wear heels because they think they make their legs look thinner.

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

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.

It's amazing how much you can find to say when there's one big thing you're too afraid to say: 'This isn't working.

when cynicism becomes the default language, playfulness and invention become impossible.

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.

I was holding his hand. I banked every jealous look, and became limitlessly wealthy on them.

My parents were hippies. I'm the eldest of eight children.

Whenever you need to win a situation - talk about jazz, Johanna. It confuses people.

Simultaneously, my two biggest heroes are Susan Sontag and Morticia Addams from 'The Addams Family.'

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.

Feminism has had exactly the same problem that "political correctness" has had: people keep using the phrase without really knowing what it means.

Rock 'n' roll is a terrible babysitter, baby.

Krissi starts dancing toward me in a showy disco-jog. Still a bit hurt, I do vague, place-holding disco fingers at him.

If you do it properly, life is art, really.

I believe in music and gin and joy and talking too much and human kindness.

Because I am well read, I know what a terrible cliche it is to shout, "I *hate* you. I never *asked* to be born," so I refrain.

You don't need to be legendary all the time. You can just be legendary for 10 minutes a day.

As Germaine Greer puts it in The Whole Woman, to become a mother without wanting it is to live like a slave, or domestic animal.

Batman doesn't have to put up with this shit
why should we?

If you eat enough books, you start pooping out words.

I love getting older. You might lose skin elasticity, but you also lose the amount of fucks you give. It's awesome.

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.

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.

Poor people can write. It's one of the few things poverty, and lack

In the end, I go where I always go when I need information on something baffling, poisonous, or terrifying: the library.

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.

A reformed bitch is going to cost a fortune in stamps.

Women's bodies do not give up their babies so easily, and so silently, is the message. The heart will always remember.

THERE ARE MEN OUT THERE HAVING SEX WITH BICYCLES. Men don't remotely care if you're wearing sexy underpants or not.

LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, MR ELTON JOHN!

If you can find a frock you look nice in and can run up three flights of stairs, you're not fat.

Mental health is seen as a massive drag to have to write about - worthy, dull. Something you should 'have' to read / write about.

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

We were all wondering - could you stop the maracas

When people ask workingwomen, "When are you going to have a baby?" what they're really asking is "When are you going to leave?

Telly never has any smart, amusing intellectuals living on a council estate.

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

Once you become poor, tired and time-constrained, you become a much better human being.

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

The actual handbag is neither here nor there
it's what you keep in it that's the most important thing.

I want a Zero Tolerance policy on All The Patriarchal Bullshit.

Anger is just fear, brought to the boil.

Come on, fellow breastkateers - we

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.

We need more women who are allowed to prove their worth as people, rather than being assessed merely for their potential to create new people.

Babies being "given" to women as gifts makes the women sound powerless.

I will never tell anyone when I feel bad again. I will never confide a weakness. It does not work. It makes things worse.

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

And the question is always "When are you going to have kids?" Rather than "Do you want to have kids?

You can crush any woman by suggesting that she's fat, not even saying the word 'fat' but just suggesting she's fat.

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

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.

Evenings never end - they just, without you noticing, turn into tomorrow.

Because I haven't yet learned the simplest and most important thing of all: the world is difficult, and we are all breakable. So just be kind.

Watching 'Girls' has just given me renewed courage.

I just want Tina Fey to be my best friend. And Lena Dunham. And Oprah, too.

My favourite place in the world - the south beach at Aberystwyth -has a sewage outfall pipe on it

When Simone de Beauvoir said, "One is not born a woman - one becomes one," she didn't know the half of it. In

Within living memory of this country, men could rape their wives: women were not seen as a separate sexual entity, with the right of refusal.

Life is really the only place you can learn the most important lessons about how to get dressed and to be happy.

Oh God, are you supposed to collect things? I don't collect things. I like throwing things away.

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

We're supposed to speak from the heart in what we wear. We have to find capsule wardrobes.

The 1990s are a bad time to be poor and not-famous.

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