Johanna Moran Quotes

Go for it, Jeanne. Just dig right in. ~ Johanna Moran

In fact, just heading toward veganism lifts a not insignificant burden from the earth. According to food pundit Michael Pollan, who's not a vegetarian, if everybody did even "Meatless Monday," it would be the environmental equivalent of taking 20 million midsize cars off the road. ~ Victoria Moran

The assumption of choice leads to the conclusion of consent, but choice and consent are erroneous concepts here. Their invalidity rests on the fact that a woman's compliance in prostitution is a response to circumstances beyond her control, and this produces an environment which prohibits even the possibility of true consent. There is a difference between consent and reluctant submission. As a lawyer and scholar Catharine Mackinnon says '…when fear and despair produce acquiescence and acquiescence is taken to mean consent, consent is not a meaningful concept'. ~ Rachel Moran

All the shy people are doomed! Natural selection favors the loud and the aggressive ~ Dylan Moran

For a guy who wore layers upon layers of armor, his give-a-shit was showing. ~ Kelly Moran

You can be socially accepted and tell the truth about what it is to be a woman. ~ Caitlin Moran

And there's your pecking order of unhappiness, right there in a nutshell. Of all the overwhelming compulsions you can be ruined by, all of them have some potential for some perverted, self-destructive fascination – except eating. ~ Caitlin Moran

Because I am fully aware of what the word "fat" means - what it really means, when you say it, or think it. It's not just a simple, descriptive word like "brunette" or "34." It's a swear word. It's a weapon. It's a sociological subspecies. It's an accusation, dismissal, and rejection. ~ Caitlin Moran

There's a flipside to this; if you as an individual have the right to live on your own terms, you must have the right to both succeed and fail on them. ~ Daniel Keys Moran

Two young, fit, healthy attractive people in love? There's nothing worse to look at in the world. ~ Dylan Moran

My life proves over and over again that discoveries don't matter at all; you have to conquer what life throws at you if you want to get anywhere in this world. ~ Johanna Parkhurst

Considering I'm a writer, you leave me strangely bereft of words. ~ Kelly Moran

I'm delighted to make as many people feel ashamed as possible. There's probably a site like that for everybody. I've heard Newt Gingrich has his own as well. ~ Dylan Moran

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

Never test for an error condition you don't know how to handle. ~ Daniel Keys Moran

At its best fashion is a game. But for women it's a compulsory game, like net ball, and you can't get out of it by faking your period. I know I have tried. And so for a woman every outfit is a hopeful spell, cast to influence the outcome of the day. An act of trying to predict your fate, like looking at your horoscope. No wonder there are so many fashion magazines. No wonder the fashion industry is worth an estimated 900 billion dollars a year. No wonder every woman's first thought is, for nearly every event in her life, be it work, snow or birth. The semi-despairing cry of "but what will I wear?" Because when a woman says I have nothing to wear, what she really means is there is nothing here for who I am supposed to be today. ~ Caitlin Moran

I have discovered something amazing: some people aren't just people, but a place - a whole world. Sometimes you find someone you could live in for the rest of your life. John Kite is like Narnia to me - I've pushed through his fur coat and into a land where I am Princess Duchess, High Chatter of Cair Paravel. In John Kite, people walk down the street holding pigs, and we walk onstage holding hands into the bright light, and I fly over tiny maps to great theories, and I sleep in the bathtub, still talking. I wish to be a citizen of John Kite forever - I want to move there immediately. I know he is the most amazing person in the world. Things happen with John Kite. ~ Caitlin Moran

Do you know what would happen to you if I had found you then? This - and a helluva lot more. ~ Johanna Lindsey

I suppose I am one: an activist - for animals and a vegan lifestyle. I hear that word, however, and look around to see if someone is indeed referring to me. ~ Victoria Moran

The undeniable feeling that, as you castigate a troll, he's rubbing his Red Dwarf mouse pad against his crotch and sighing, Angry liberal women typing at me. Oh yah. That's how I like it. ~ Caitlin Moran

This battle for global talent is so important. ~ Jerry Moran

You're supposed to be using your gifts and fulfilling your dreams, at every age. ~ Victoria Moran

Let other people do it their way. What other people do is irrelevant. ~ Victoria Moran

When did you ever hear of a child not in need? 'Oh that's enough jam tart for me, I'll just go now and clean the toilets.' ~ Dylan Moran

Who said love was reasonable? ~ Johanna Lindsey

The only words free of suspicious motives will be the ones I find in books. ~ Michelle Moran

The time has come. I know you, and now you will know me. Ever Yours. ~ Kelly Moran

I personally have a cunt. Sometimes it's 'flaps' or 'twat', but most of the time, it's my cunt. Cunt is a proper, old, historic, strong word. I like that my fire escape also doubles up as the most potent swearword in the English language. Yeah. That's how powerful it is, guys. If I tell you what I've got down there, old ladies and clerics might faint. I like how shocked people are when you say 'cunt'. It's like I have a nuclear bomb in my pants, or a tiger, or a gun.

Compared to this the most powerful swearword men have got out of their privates is 'dick', which is frankly vanilla, and I believe you're allowed to use on, like, Blue Peter if something goes wrong. In a culture where nearly everything female is still seen as squeam-inducing, and/or weak - menstruation, menopause, just the sheer simple act of calling someone 'a girl' - I love that 'cunt' stands, on its own, as the supreme unvanquishable word. It has almost mystic resonance. It is a cunt - we all know it's a cunt - but we can't call it a cunt. We can't say the actual word. It's too powerful. Like Jews can never utter the Tetragrammaton - an must make do with 'Jehovah', instead. ~ Caitlin Moran

I'm not staring. I'm observing ... And what do you observe? ... A brave young woman who has always fought for what was right, even when it was unpopular. ~ Michelle Moran

If you take big steps and climb with all your little might! ~ Johanna Spyri

I have a pretty good handle on my anxiety. I basically treat myself like a nervy horse: lots of exercise, lots of sleep, lots of interesting work to keep my mind occupied, and generally avoiding being ridden hard by strangers. ~ Caitlin Moran

How much dip would a dipshit shit if a dipshit could shit dip? ~ Kelly Moran

The only thing money is good for, Marie, is buying time. The time to do the things you like. ~ Michelle Moran

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

I think it was a good thing that Joanie and Chachi married. ~ Erin Moran

Actors are good liars, writers are good liars with good memories. ~ Daniel Keys Moran

What's the weather like? ... It's fierce mild! ~ Dylan Moran