More Than a Woman Quotes

“All too often, women end up marrying their glass ceilings.”
― Caitlin Moran, More Than a Woman: A Brutally Honest and Hilarious Feminist Memoir on Parenting, Marriage, and Middle-Age

“You see, this is the problem with raising strong, clever, argumentative feminist daughters - the first person they practise being strong, clever, argumentative feminists on is you - and you are so much more tired and worried than them.”
― Caitlin Moran, More Than a Woman: A Brutally Honest and Hilarious Feminist Memoir on Parenting, Marriage, and Middle-Age

“If you want to see what a teenage girl is, look at her bedroom wall. That's what she is, or what she will be. These are the tools which she has found, with which she is building herself. What she sees, then, in the mirror is a curator of beauty - not the beauty itself. She is constructing her own judgments and standards. Her own laws.”
― Caitlin Moran, More Than a Woman: A Brutally Honest and Hilarious Feminist Memoir on Parenting, Marriage, and Middle-Age

“A woman who has made mistakes but is still given the chance to carry on - to learn in public, to correct herself, and to still proceed, without having been psychologically battered, and cancelled in the process will have far, far more useful things to bring to society than the current informal system we have: that the majority of women who still have a public platform are the ones who just haven't made a mistake yet.”
― Caitlin Moran, More Than a Woman: A Brutally Honest and Hilarious Feminist Memoir on Parenting, Marriage, and Middle-Age

“And besides, when you lose skin elasticity, you also lose the amount of fucks you give. Perhaps that's why the skin is so loose now - from all my fucks leaving. If so, I'm happy to enjoy the space they have left. Byeeeee.”
― Caitlin Moran, More Than a Woman: A Brutally Honest and Hilarious Feminist Memoir on Parenting, Marriage, and Middle-Age

“Teenagers often simply don't recognise when they have low blood sugar, or that they're hungry, or tired. It's not actually the end of the world - it's just the end of the day. Feed them. Also, remember that you often still don't know when you've got low blood sugar, and have meltdowns exactly like this, and you're fourty-four. Really, Fitbits should be telling all of us this shit. What's the point of having robot overlords if they aren't telling you, at the point where you start crying to EE Customer Services because your 4G is 'feeble', that it's really time for a brew?”
― Caitlin Moran, More Than a Woman: A Brutally Honest and Hilarious Feminist Memoir on Parenting, Marriage, and Middle-Age

“There is no such thing as 'male pride' about work and income. It's not produced by some gland in their balls, which you don't have.

Instead, 'male pride' is this: fear about being poor and undervalued. A fear of having no money or power. A fear of becoming unemployable.”
― Caitlin Moran, More Than a Woman: A Brutally Honest and Hilarious Feminist Memoir on Parenting, Marriage, and Middle-Age

“Cuando un joven que se declaraba incel (un «célibe involuntario»), después de que una chica lo rechazara y de llevar «más de dos años» sin tener relaciones sexuales, mató a treinta y dos personas en Canadá (porque que no conseguía «hacer» que ninguna mujer se acostara con él, pobrecillo), les pregunté a las mujeres de Twitter qué hacían ellas cuando llevaban más de dos años sin tener relaciones sexuales.

«Hacía calceta», «Leía poesía», «Aprendí capoeira y me apunté a clases de baile», «Me compré todos los libros de Alfred Wainwright y me aficioné a hacer senderismo por el Distrito de los Lagos», «Adopté un gato», «Escribí un libro», «Aprendí cerámica», «Aprendí a cocinar», «Me masturbaba». Hay cientos de miles de mujeres faltas de afecto y rechazadas sexualmente, y ni una sola ha protagonizado una matanza en un colegio, una discoteca ni un centro comercial. Ninguna mujer ha matado a un montón de gente porque se sintiera rechazada por la sociedad, pese a que me atrevería a afirmar que las mujeres sufren desengaños amorosos como mínimo con la misma frecuencia que los hombres.”
― Caitlin Moran, More Than a Woman: A Brutally Honest and Hilarious Feminist Memoir on Parenting, Marriage, and Middle-Age

“All too often, women marry their glass ceilings.”
― Caitlin Moran, More Than a Woman: A Brutally Honest and Hilarious Feminist Memoir on Parenting, Marriage, and Middle-Age

“When I think about how the most wearying thing about becoming middle-aged, it’s that you are the only one who can fix things – there is no one you can complain to, or seek comfort from; for you are the grown-ups, now, and if you can’t fix it, it will remain broken.”
― Caitlin Moran, More Than a Woman

“Incidentally, when it comes to 'unworkably quirky names for your baby', I believe that the greatest possible argument against teenagers becoming pregnant is that the baby names you like when you're, say, fifteen, single-handedly prove you're not ready for motherhood yet. My teenage diary records that, had I had a child in 1988, I would have called them either 'Kitten Lithium', 'K. T. Blue', 'Tatty Apple' or 'Aloyious Jonst'. Thank God my access to sperm was severely limited, to the amount of 'none'.”
― Caitlin Moran, More Than a Woman: A Brutally Honest and Hilarious Feminist Memoir on Parenting, Marriage, and Middle-Age

“Women slagging off other women for perceived physical imperfection is like farting in a spaceship: everyone on board suffers, including she who dealt it.”
― Caitlin Moran, More Than a Woman: A Brutally Honest and Hilarious Feminist Memoir on Parenting, Marriage, and Middle-Age

“Bob Geldof’s autobiography, when he talked about his late wife Paula Yates: “In every relationship, there is one person who loves, and one who is loved.” At the time, I just accepted it: I believed it to be true. I thought it a fact. Perhaps that is the way of love? A yin and a yang, a nut and a bolt, a lover and a loved. I wondered, Which would I be? Which would be best? Which one would work for me? I”
― Caitlin Moran, More Than a Woman: A Brutally Honest and Hilarious Feminist Memoir on Parenting, Marriage, and Middle-Age

“We talk so much about achieving—getting things, sorting things, improving things, doing things—but the very opposite of this, undoing, is an astonishing trick to learn, as you get older. The philosophy of looking at the things that cause you pain—either physically or mentally—and rewinding, to the start, and beginning again.”
― Caitlin Moran, More Than a Woman: A Brutally Honest and Hilarious Feminist Memoir on Parenting, Marriage, and Middle-Age

“Cuando eres una mujer madura, las otras mujeres maduras te parecen más maravillosas que cualquier otro tipo de persona. Te pueden encantar todo lo que quieras los hombres, o la gente joven, pero solo cuando estás rodeada de otras mujeres como tú sientes que puedes ser tú misma: contar historias y desternillarte de risa de una forma que otros…, bueno, sí, al pasar con miedo a vuestro lado podrían describir como «cacarear».”
― Caitlin Moran, More Than a Woman: A Brutally Honest and Hilarious Feminist Memoir on Parenting, Marriage, and Middle-Age

“No me canso de repetirlo: no es él, eres tú.

«Pero… ¿ahora qué hago? Él me necesita».

Ay, amiga: creo que una de las cosas más venenosas del mundo es que a una mujer la eduquen para que se sienta necesitada. Todas las mujeres se merecen que las quieran. Yo te quiero.

Y quiero que dejes a ese hombre.

Y sé que tardarás muchísimo tiempo en dejarlo.

«Tengo que irme»..

Ya lo sé. ¿Hablamos mañana? Sí, hablamos mañana. Pero déjame decirte una cosa: un día dejarás de sentirte confundida, o triste, o enfadada, o asustada, y te sentirás… sencillamente cansada. Demasiado cansada para seguir tirando del carro. Se habrán agotado tus reservas de amor, ya no habrá más ideas, más razonamientos: no quedará nada, y todo esto solo te provocará hartazgo. De repente será inviable. Estarás agotada. Te será imposible seguir haciéndolo ni un minuto más.

Y ese día, por fin, lo abandonarás.

Y cuando llegue ese día, querida amiga, mi habitación de invitados estará esperándote.”
― Caitlin Moran, More Than a Woman: A Brutally Honest and Hilarious Feminist Memoir on Parenting, Marriage, and Middle-Age

“Aunque a los hombres que tienen miedo o sienten que se han quedado rezagados no se lo parezca, cada vez que una mujer tiene éxito, paradójicamente también les está poniendo las cosas más fáciles a los hombres. En última instancia, está teniendo éxito por todos nosotros. Por eso el feminismo nunca podrá «ir demasiado lejos». Las mujeres no pueden «ganar» demasiado. Porque cuando «ser mujer» y «hacer cosas de mujeres» se considere igual de empoderador que «ser hombre» y «hacer cosas de hombres», los hombres no se avergonzarán de adoptar las cosas que a nosotras nos hacen más felices. Por fin viviremos en un mundo donde no existirán las «cosas de chicas» ni las «cosas de chicos», todo estará, sencillamente, dentro de la gran caja de herramientas de los seres humanos.”
― Caitlin Moran, More Than a Woman: A Brutally Honest and Hilarious Feminist Memoir on Parenting, Marriage, and Middle-Age

“Todas las familias son diferentes, pero me he fijado en que, en muchas ocasiones, detrás de cada exhausta mujer madura cargada de responsabilidades que se ocupa de sus padres cuando envejecen suele haber un par de hermanos varones que no tiran del carro. Supongo que no educamos a los hombres para que acudan al rescate cuando surge una crisis familiar.”
― Caitlin Moran, More Than a Woman: A Brutally Honest and Hilarious Feminist Memoir on Parenting, Marriage, and Middle-Age

“Pero el otro consejo que me gustaría darte, ahora que soy mayor, es este: si puedes, no dejes tu trabajo. No dependas económicamente de tu pareja.”
― Caitlin Moran, More Than a Woman: A Brutally Honest and Hilarious Feminist Memoir on Parenting, Marriage, and Middle-Age

“Muchas veces las mujeres se casan con su techo de cristal.”
― Caitlin Moran, More Than a Woman: A Brutally Honest and Hilarious Feminist Memoir on Parenting, Marriage, and Middle-Age

“Es cierto que la situación no es tan grave como en la época victoriana, cuando las mujeres no eran más que «un vestido» con una cabeza en lo alto; pero es fácil darse cuenta del camino que nos queda por recorrer: basta con constatar que las mujeres todavía tenemos que esforzarnos para encontrar una palabra aceptable con que denominar la parte de nuestro cuerpo más fundamental y definitoria: los genitales. En 2012, a la congresista de Michigan Lisa Brown se le prohibió seguir interviniendo en el Congreso por haber pronunciado la palabra «vagina» en un debate sobre la anticoncepción. El congresista republicano Mike Callton argumentó que la palabra era tan «repugnante y asquerosa que él jamás se atrevería a pronunciarla ni delante de una mujer ni de un grupo de hombres y mujeres».”
― Caitlin Moran, More Than a Woman: A Brutally Honest and Hilarious Feminist Memoir on Parenting, Marriage, and Middle-Age

“Supongo que, a fin de cuentas, todo depende de tu experiencia personal. Las mujeres estamos acostumbradas a que nos pasen cosas que pueden considerarse «enfermedades» (calambres, hemorragias, náuseas matutinas, hinchazón, dos tetas enormes que duelen que te cagas) pero que, en realidad, solo son consecuencias de estar vivas; de modo que, cuando nos ponemos enfermas de verdad, no nos asustamos. Nuestro cuerpo está sufriendo espasmos y expulsando cosas continuamente.”
― Caitlin Moran, More Than a Woman: A Brutally Honest and Hilarious Feminist Memoir on Parenting, Marriage, and Middle-Age

“Is feminism agains make-up? No! How could it be? I wear make-up, and I'm a feminist, because - how could my make-up be against the social, political and economic equality of women, when I apply it for the simple reason that I want to look like charismatic seabird the puffin? For that is what my go-to make-up look - bright, iridescent blue eyelid, thick black eyeliner, and super-super pale skin - is towards, due to its adorable waddling gait, love of sardines, and fondness for laying eggs on cliffs.”
― Caitlin Moran, More Than a Woman: A Brutally Honest and Hilarious Feminist Memoir on Parenting, Marriage, and Middle-Age