Caitlin Quotes

The fear of death is why we build cathedrals, have children, declare war, and watch cat videos online at three a.m. — Caitlin Doughty

You're my addiction, Caitlin, keeping me sane at the same time as driving me crazy. — Lindsay J. Pryor

Self-harm - the world will come at you with knives anyway. You do not need to beat them to it. — Caitlin Moran

Men threatened by feminism either don't understand it or don't like that they now have to modify their own shitty behavior. — Caitlin Stasey

Before finding the one you have to find your furtre — Caitlin Scott

Mother Nature, as Tennyson said, is "red in tooth and claw," demolishing every beautiful thing she has ever created. — Caitlin Doughty

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

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

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

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

And of course, the deepest irony about the young being cynical is that they are the ones that need to move, and dance, and trust the most. — Caitlin Moran

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

I've undoubtedly offended people, but in the end, I've learned the people that will understand are the people I want to connect to, anyway. — Caitlin Stasey

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. — Caitlin Moran

There is no crueler or more inappropriate present to give a child than estrogen and a big pair of tits. — Caitlin Moran

Make me a part of this place. Make me a part of Caitlin. Please, God, I love her so. — Susan Wiggs

I could never stand to be a writer. Not a real writer. It's entirely too awful, having thoughts that refuse to become sentences. — Caitlin R. Kiernan

March against size-zero models, risible pornography, lap-dancing clubs, and Botox. We don't need to — Caitlin Moran

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

I wish I could give up smoking, but it does taste so delicious. — Caitlin Moran

Benedict Cumberbatch is very beautiful. — Caitlin Moran

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

You smell pretty tasty.
Just what every girl wants to hear. — Caitlin Kittredge

[On journalists:] They are as disruptive a menace to the public body: as grating turds in the intestines are to the private body. — Caitlin Thomas

Often little blessings bring big benefits. - Caitlin M. Vukorpa — Gary Chapman

Too often, it occurs to him that he's lived just long enough to have completely outlived the world that made sense to him, the world where he fit. He — Caitlin R. Kiernan

There is this malign curse laid on dipsomaniacs. That they must absolutely have a drink: in order to feel strong enough to stop drinking. — Caitlin Thomas

Originality is the most deadly mirage in all of art. You can chase it from now until doomsday, and you'll only find yourself lost and dying of thirst. — Caitlin R. Kiernan

Jack Black is so funny! On and off screen, like, he would make you laugh every day. He's hilarious. — Caitlin Hale

Regardless of the shape he took, Cal had a nearly endless capacity for worrywarting. — Caitlin Kittredge

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. — Caitlin Moran

It's our responsibility as humans to take care of each other. — Caitlin Crosby

'Broad City' is how I wish we could all be, whereas 'Girls' is maybe a more accurate representation of how things are. — Caitlin Stasey

...it would be a lie to describe the experience as anything less than exhilarating, the repulsive going hand in hand with the wondrous. — Caitlin Doughty

There is no gaiety as gay as the gaiety of grief. — Caitlin Thomas

Come on, fellow breastkateers - we — Caitlin Moran

If we ignore our death, we end up just going around completely oblivious to why we do the things we do! — Caitlin Doughty

Anger is just fear, brought to the boil. — Caitlin Moran

Word of advice, kid. This may be the Wild West down here, but you ain't a cowboy. You're not even a boy in a cowboy suit. — Caitlin Kittredge

The word 'spinster' tells you everything you need to know about our attitude of women who choose not to marry. — Caitlin Moran

Crows don't take from you," Dean said. "They give your soul wings. — Caitlin Kittredge

The aphorism "If you want something done, ask a busy woman" is in direct acknowledgment of the efficiency boot camp parenthood puts you through. — Caitlin Moran

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

Normal is a bitter pill that we rail against. — Caitlin R. Kiernan

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

The mere thought of going near a man who is not mellowly pickled, and whose breath reeks of his native fleshy self, is squeamishly unpalatable to me. — Caitlin Thomas

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

People get really scared when women reclaim words, talk about themselves honestly and also make jokes because it's a really unstoppable combination. — Caitlin Moran

I'm going to be the Beatles of kissing. — Caitlin Moran

Love can bear anything better than ridicule. — Caitlin Thomas

I don't trust sentimentality in men; it goes with tyranny; you can't have one without the other. — Caitlin Thomas

It demeans a society to rely on random acts of mercy, Johanna. — Caitlin Moran

And I think: I could do this. Fuck writing a book about a fat girl and a dragon. I could be a music journalist, instead. — Caitlin Moran

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

I'm neither 'pro-women' nor 'anti-men'. I'm just 'Thumbs up for the six billion — Caitlin Moran

I get my gossip from 'Nashville' on ABC. — Caitlin Rose

You think it doesn't really matter if you screw up this time around because you can just sort it all out in paradise — Caitlin Moran

Death had brought them all here for a kind of United Nations summit, a roundtable discussion on nonexistence. — Caitlin Doughty

If I could be small again, Monique told me at the playground's fence, slurring her words and watching Caitlin sob, I'd want to have a friend like her. — E.R. Frank

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

Eva was only a slut. She never had the requisite motivation to be anything so useful or lucrative as a whore. — Caitlin R. Kiernan

He was bright, bright, bright, like a lantern above a pub door in November- he made you want to come in and never leave. — Caitlin Moran

Fearful as reality is, it is less fearful than evasions of reality. — Caitlin Thomas

How can you be dour when you have a tiny duck? — Caitlin Kittredge

Death represented a failure of the medical system; it would not be permitted to upset the patients or their families. — Caitlin Doughty

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

I am a dead woman. Dead and insane. — Caitlin R. Kiernan

Marriage remains the most efficient engine of disenchantment yet invented. — Caitlin Flanagan

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

It can be demonstrated from history that no society has ever survived after its family life deteriorated. — Caitlin Flanagan

Anybody who drinks seriously is poor: so poor, poor, extra poor, me. — Caitlin Thomas

So, here are my windows, stained all with me. — Caitlin R. Kiernan

We were all wondering - could you stop the maracas — Caitlin Moran

Accepting your own mortality is like eating your vegetables: You may not want to do it, but it's good for you. — Caitlin Doughty

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

But when women are asked when they're going to have children, there is, in actually, another darker, more pertinent question lying underneath it. — Caitlin Moran

All time is now. — Caitlin Lynagh

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

What makes us brave isn't lacking the good sence to be afraid; it's looking back at what we've lived through and seeing if we've faced it well. — Caitlin R. Kiernan

Feminism, as it stands, well ... stands. It has ground to a halt. — Caitlin Moran

When you live in a small house with five younger siblings, it's actually far more sensible - and much quicker - to cry alone. — Caitlin Moran

A book may only be judged for what it is, not what you'd like it to be. — Caitlin R. Kiernan

Amnesty International Survey found that 25 percent of people believe a woman is to blame for being raped if she dresses provocatively. — Caitlin Moran

If you're a writer, you just keep following the path - keep going deeper and deeper into the things that interest you. — Caitlin Flanagan

turn our unsaid things into our life's work. — Caitlin Moran

I've worked very hard to become comfortable with how death works and why it happens. I now know that death isn't out to get me. — Caitlin Doughty

I am not good at small talk. I will hide in a cupboard to avoid chitty-chat. — Caitlin Moran

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

Love is like a promise. Once you break it.. it doesn't come back unless you really fight for it. — Caitlin Rose

I don't care about lasting. I just want right now. — Caitlin Kittredge

LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, MR ELTON JOHN! — Caitlin Moran

There is not much to enjoy in a layer of inorganic human bone dusted behind one's ear or gathered underneath a fingernail, — Caitlin Doughty

In America they make too much fuss of poets; in London they make too little. — Caitlin Thomas

Let's all go and be feminists in the pub. — Caitlin Moran

I like a little bit of revolution. I think it's a very good hobby for a young woman. Better than squash. — Caitlin Moran

Brothers didn't make life easier, not even the jinxed sort of life we'd found ourselves in, I decided. They were tailored by evolution to be annoying. — Caitlin Kittredge

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

I am usually at my most brutally forthright when making shit up. That's the paradox of me. — Caitlin R. Kiernan

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

My father was a writer; I've known a lot of children of writers - daughters and sons of writers, and it can be a hard way to grow up. — Caitlin Flanagan