{"author":"Caitlin Moran","author_id":"Caitlin+Moran","total_quotes":126,"quotes":[{"text":"Overeating is the addiction of choice of carers, and that's why it's come to be regarded as the lowest-ranking of all the addictions. It's a way of fucking yourself up while still remaining fully functional, because you have to. Fat people aren't indulging in the 'luxury' of their addiction making them useless, chaotic, or a burden. Instead, they are slowly self-destructing in a way that doesn't inconvenience anyone. And that's why it's so often a woman's addiction of choice. All the quietly eating mums. All the KitKats in office drawers. All the unhappy moments, late at night, caught only in the fridge light.","author":"Caitlin Moran","tags":["addiction","candy","fat","kitkats","obesity","overeating"],"id":393,"author_id":"Caitlin+Moran"},{"text":"The scabs feel like I have a message on my arm. Something that needs to be read, urgently, by someone. It was only years later that I realized the person I had written that message to- the person who wasn't listening- was me. I was the one who should have been staring at that arm, and working out what the red hieroglyphics meant. Had I translated them, I would have realized those red lines read: 'Never feel this bad again. Never come back to this place, where only a knife will do. Live a gentle and kind life. Don't do things that make you want to hurt yourself. Whatever you do, every day, remember this- then steer away from here.","author":"Caitlin Moran","tags":["cutting","depression","self-harm","self-mutilation"],"id":412,"author_id":"Caitlin+Moran"},{"text":"Never feel this bad again. Never come back to this place, where only a knife will do. Live a gentle and kind life. Don't do things that make you want to hurt yourself. Whatever you do, every day, remember this - then steer away from here.","author":"Caitlin Moran","tags":["recovery","self-harm"],"id":15605,"author_id":"Caitlin+Moran"},{"text":"Men and women alike have convinced themselves of a dragging belief: that somehow women are incomplete without having children.","author":"Caitlin Moran","tags":["feminism"],"id":15698,"author_id":"Caitlin+Moran"},{"text":"I hate that tabloid idea of anybody who is famous having to forfeit their privacy.","author":"Caitlin Moran","tags":["hate","privacy","idea "],"id":18089,"author_id":"Caitlin+Moran"},{"text":"Lines and greyness are nature's way of telling you not to fuck with someone - the equivalent of yellow and black lines on a wasp, or the markings on the back of a black widow spider.","author":"Caitlin Moran","tags":["aging"],"id":24964,"author_id":"Caitlin+Moran"},{"text":"Women wear heels because they think they make their legs look thinner.","author":"Caitlin Moran","tags":["feminism"],"id":29269,"author_id":"Caitlin+Moran"},{"text":"We need to reclaim the word 'feminism'. We need the word 'feminism' back real bad. When statistics come in saying that only 29% of American women would describe themselves as feminist - and only 42% of British women - I used to think, What do you think feminism IS, ladies? What part of 'liberation for women' is not for you? Is it freedom to vote? The right not to be owned by the man you marry? The campaign for equal pay? 'Vogue' by Madonna? Jeans? Did all that good shit GET ON YOUR NERVES? Or were you just DRUNK AT THE TIME OF THE SURVEY?","author":"Caitlin Moran","tags":["feminism","humour"],"id":30938,"author_id":"Caitlin+Moran"},{"text":"When a woman says, ‘I have nothing to wear!’, what she really means is, ‘There’s nothing here for who I’m supposed to be today.","author":"Caitlin Moran","tags":["clothes","women"],"id":32143,"author_id":"Caitlin+Moran"},{"text":"I am eating this noise like mouthfuls of freezing, glittering fog. I am filling with it. I am using it as energy. Because what you are, as a teenager, is a small, silver, empty rocket. And you use loud music as fuel, and then the information in books as maps and coordinates, to tell you where you're going.","author":"Caitlin Moran","tags":["music","youth"],"id":34231,"author_id":"Caitlin+Moran"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":126,"pages":13,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}