Caitlin Moran

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

What is feminism? Simply the belief that women should be as free as men, however nuts, dim, deluded, badly dressed, fat, receding, lazy, and smug they might be.

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.

In the U.K., we have a paper called 'The Daily Mail,' which is quite misogynist. And every day, it just writes pieces about: 'Women, you're going to die now! Women, here's shoes that give you cancer! Women, just hate yourselves!'

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

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

I can't live in a world where there are only, like, four kinds of women. Or where every woman is obsessed with cake. The very least I ask is that we have one female character in the world who likes savory things! I don't have any role models who like cheese!

I see feminism as a massive party. It's cool, the idea that 50% of the population can now start doing things and having fun and experimenting with their hair and makeup.

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

We think of feminism as an academic subject, but it's not. If you think feminism is academic, you think there's a right or wrong.

I don't regret not going to college. Students learn up to the age of 21, then stop. I'll always be learning - the things that really matter in life. How to sign on, how to get free food, how to be streetwise.

I remember, around age three, peas growing in the back garden. Pinching them from their pods and popping them in the mouth was my first realisation that food came from somewhere other than a shelf.