#Moranifesto

[therockerfromspace]

"And the most important thing? To know that you were not born like this. You were not born scared and self-loathing and overwhelmed. Things have been done - which means things can be undone. It is hard work. But you are not scared of hard work, compared to everything else you have dealt with. Because what you must do right now, and for the rest of your life, is learn how to build a girl. You."

Caitlin Moran, "To Teenage Girls On The Edge", from "Moranifesto"

#caitlin moran #moranifesto

[books-in-media]

Emma Watson, (Instagram, April 08, 2016)

—Moranifesto, Caitlin Moran (2016)

#emma watson #moranifesto #Caitlin Moran #books #celebrities #books read by celebrities #instagram

[mcforwhatiam]

Reading another Caitlin Moran book and came across another reference to Beastie Boys. Even though she sounds embarrassed now about the time she interviewed them, I'm still jealous 😉

#beastie boys #caitlin moran #moranifesto #too bad can't find interview online just reference to one she did w them in '94

[the-final-sentence]

‘Fill yourself with words, choruses, and heroes, like you’re supposed to fill your wardrobe with shoes, brooches, and belts.’

Caitlin Moran, from “What Really Gives Me Confidence” in Moranifesto

#lit #submission #Moranifesto #Caitlin Moran #What Really Gives Me Confidence

[purple-sodapop]

Caitlin Moran describing her interview with Benedict Cumberbatch is the most delightful thing I’ve read all year.

#caitlin moran #benedict cumberbatch #moranifesto

[applebottomclaudiajeans]

Buy flowers — or if you are poor, steal one from someone's garden; the world owes you that much at least: a blossom — and put them at the end of the bed. When you wake, look at them, and tell yourself you are the kind of person who wakes up and sees flowers. This stops your first thought being, "I fear today. Today is the day maybe I cannot survive anymore," which I know is what you would otherwise think. Thinking about blossoms before you think about terror is what girls must always do, in the Bad Years.

Caitlin Moran, Moranifesto

#honestly i haven't been able to stop thinking about this quote #caitlin moran #moranifesto #depression #anxiety

[ifjanetranit]

I read a book, yo! Have you read any Caitlin Moran yet? Well, what are you waiting for? Moran’s latest collection of London Times essays, Moranifesto, is brilliant. She’s a former music journalist who loves pop culture, and she’s wickedly funny. But as a vocal feminist, she’s also not afraid to tackle some of the larger political issues of the day. And she’s delightfully British. What’s not to love about that? 

#i read a book #caitlin moran #moranifesto

[thehungrylittlebookworm]

“I for years knew that I wanted to write books and films and tv shows, but I was like, I can’t, I don’t know how to write those kind of stories, I don’t have any stories in me. Because to me, a story was a teenage boy who felt slightly alienated from his society finding out a magic power, such as being bitten by a radioactive spider or discovering that he had the Force, and then going on a journey where he found a mentor and then destroyed the Death Star. And I was like... I don’t have a classic archetype monomyth story, so I’m screwed, I’ve got no stories to write. 

“And I had a sudden revelation when I was about 34 or 35 which was, these are all the stories that already exist...where are all the stories that don’t exist? Where’s all the stuff that’s not being written at the moment? 

“...And I think particularly for women or if you come from any kind of underrepresented minority, it’s very easy to just sit there and go, yeah, but they don’t have stories like that yet, they don’t have businesses like that, they don’t have people like that. 

“And whenever you’re thinking that, there’s nothing like that, there’s nothing like I am, you have to add one word to the end of that sentence that changes everything, and you go, there aren’t things like that yet. There aren’t people like that yet. And you are that yet, that’s what you do. You start writing a list of all the things you can’t see and making those happen....You are the one that is going to invent the future. ...People are only telling you what they know exists so far. If you’ve decided that your job is to create the future, you’re going to have to go out and work out how you’re going to do that yourself, and just go, I am the yet.” 

#caitlin moran #writing #inappropriate advice for creatives #creative industries #how to be a woman #how to build a girl #moranthology #moranifesto #representation #diverse voices

[art2catch]

For a reader is not a simple consumer - as you are listening to a record, or watching a movie. A reader is something far more noble, dangerous and exhilarating - they are a co-artist.

Caitlin Moran

#quotes #quotes on tumblr #art quotes #caitlin moran #moranifesto #reading books #literature quotations #book quotes #how to be a woman

[thatemmawatson]

#Emma Watson #caitlin moran #moranifesto

[words-and-ideas]

Book Review: “Moranifesto”

Book: Moranifesto Author: Caitlin Moran Published: Harper Perennial, 2016

“So, welcome to my second collection of writing. Hello! I embrace you. I am sorry about the smell. I get very sweaty when I write. I don’t know why. One day, I will learn how to varnish my armpits, and it will be easier to be my friend again. Until then - I apologize.”

You might not recognise it from the start on, but Caitlin Moran’s fourth and most recent book calls out for change. With the so-typical-for her kind of humour, she onnects a lot of her published articles with short introductory passages;  topics ranging from Climate Change to Benetict Cumberbatch‘s face. A lot of Benedict Cumberbatch. A lot. A combination of endless life lists, sex and make-up advice, comments on pop and gay culture, and the Queen.

The books is split into four main sections: “The 21st century, where we live”, “Feminisms”, and “The Future”. 

Whilst in the first part, Moran highlights a lot of topic of the past 16 years like new technological innovations, cultural diversity and the Queen’s jubilee, she introduces this section with a pure kind of critique of this century: she stresses how she loves capitalism but at the same time, she really thinks it needs an update. Like computers or smartphones. 

That is what is so typical for Caitlin Moran: she doesn’t make things more complicated than they are; she calls it by its name. And let’s be honest, that’s what we all love about her.

The second section is “The Feminisms”-part where she gives a lot of life advice for young girls and aging ladies. And she calls for equality. Similar to things you can read in her debut novel “How to Be a Woman”, she raises attention to the unncessesary time and effort women “have” to put in clothes, make-up, fitness and body hair issues. And the section includes serious topics like Female Genital Mutilation to everyday sexist experiences probably every woman can relate to.

Notably, Moran includes a lot of lists. For me as a passionate list-writer, this is fantastic. But I assume a lot of people feel this way: a lot of sex and a lot of lists and a lot of inspiration in one book - who could ask for more?

Moran then takes a look into the future and talks about the things she would like to see in it: more of Benedict Cumberbatch, more understanding for the working class, less homework. This part is where Moran really shows what she said in the introduction: you don’t have to be a writer to say what you want. Everyone’s little part is what will make the difference.

And so, Moran concludes with her “Moranifesto”. It’s a hillarious and at the same time very thought-through list of things she’s like to see imporoved. Because they don’t work the way they are now. Again. Ranging from “1. Electoral Reform” to “ 3. Andy Burnham to sing Dr. Hook’s “Sexy Eyes” at the next Labour Party Conference” and “13. Complete protection of abortion rights [..]”.

“We must not dare waste a second of our only, exploding existence, thinking that “It will be better . . .later” is ever a thing to say. If we say these things cannot be cone, we are in denial of humanity. We are perversely proud to be small. And we are not. Trying. Hard. Enough.” 

Caitlin Moran’s “Moranifesto” again proofs how much this woman has to say - and how many of those things really should be heard. Not only the included Posthumous letter to her daughter is so touching, no, what is emotional, what is so inspiring about Moran’s writing is how much honesty she offers the reader. Even though a lot of her views aren’t particularily suprising to readers like me who have basically binge-read her other books, with “Moranifesto”, Caitlin Moran takes it a step further to talk not “only” about feminism but about other  serious topics: realistic and important.

You shouldn’t miss this inspiring, hillarious and serious book. Just read it. 

#book review #review #moranifesto #caitlin moran #studyspo #writing #article #heygen #elkstudies #natlookhere #studyplants #lizzystudies #thebalancednotebook #nocturnalstudyblr #dotgrids #mujiscolar #pomegranetestudies #focusign #the-prudent-student #athenastudying #mine #words-and-ideas

[gardenerian]

Caitlin Moran, Moranifesto

#i had a lot more planned for this but 🥺 #how perfect are these words #i cry #shameless #shamelessedit #gallavich #things i made

[wastedwinter]

Extracted from Moranifesto by Caitlin Moran

(Red Magazine, September 2017)

#quotedepression #feminism #caitlinmoran #caitlin moran #quoteyouth #bpd #bpd recovery #psychology #ed recovery #selfimprovement #self love #self healing #note to self #puberty #girlhood #flowers #flowerquote #flower quotes #quotation #melancholia

[the-final-sentence]

If life WERE more like a musical, half of feminism’s work would be done.

Caitlin Moran, from “Why Can’t Life Be More Like a Musical?” in Moranifesto

#lit #submission #Why Can’t Life Be More Like a Musical? #Caitlin Moran #Moranifesto

[books-in-media]

Masterlist of books mentioned & read by Emma Watson

—Ain’t I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism, bell hooks (1981)

—All About Love: New Visions, bell hooks (1999)

—Bad Feminist, Roxane Gay (2014)

—Black on Both Sides: A Racial History of Trans Identity, C. Riley Snorton (2017)

—Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants, Robin Wall Kimmerer (2013)

—Bridge to the Soul: Journeys Into the Music and Silence of the Heart, Rumi (2007)

—Conscious Business: How to Build Value Through Values, Fred Kofman (2005)

—Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower, Brittney Cooper (2018)

—Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars: A Dangerous Trans Girl’s Confabulous Memoir, Kai Cheng Thom (2016)

—Good and Mad: The Revolutionary Power of Women’s Anger, Rebecca Traister (2018)

—Half the Sky: Turning Oppression Into Opportunity for Women Worldwide, Nicholas D. Kristof, Sheryl WuDunn (2008)

—Heart Berries, Terese Marie Mailhot (2018)

—Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow , Yuval Noah Harari (2015)

—Hope Not Fear, Hassan Akkad (2021)

—How to Be a Woman, Caitlin Moran (2011)

—Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl, Carrie Brownstein (2015)

—Little Women, Louisa May Alcott (1869)

—Milk and Honey, Rupi Kaur (2014)

—Mom & Me & Mom, Maya Angelou (2013) (X), (X)

—Moranifesto, Caitlin Moran (2016)

—My Life On The Road, Gloria Steinem (2015) (X)

—Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions, Gloria Steinem (1983)

—Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good, Adrienne Maree Brown (2019)

—Redefining Realness: My Path to Womanhood, Identity, Love & So Much More, Janet Mock (2014)

—Sex and World Peace, Valerie M. Hudson, Bonnie Ballif-Spanvill, Mary Caprioli, Chad F. Emmett (2012)

—Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches, Audre Lorde (1984)

—Stitched Up: The Anti-Capitalist Book of Fashion, Tansy E. Hoskins (2014)

—The Argonauts, Maggie Nelson (2015)

—The Complete Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi (2003) (X)

—The Five Minute Journal: A Happier You in 5 Minutes a Day, Alex Ikonn, U.J. Ramdas (2013)

—The Mother of All Questions, Rebecca Solnit (2017)

—The Power of Women: A Doctor’s Journey of Hope and Healing, Denis Mukwege (2021)

—The Things I Would Tell You: British Muslim Women Write, Sabrina Mahfouz (Editor) (2017)

—The Vagina Monologues, Eve Ensler (1996)

—This is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor, Adam Kay (2017)

—Untamed, Glennon Doyle (2020)

—We Will Not Cancel Us: And Other Dreams of Transformative Justice, Adrienne Maree Brown (2020)

—Who Cares Wins: Reasons For Optimism in Our Changing World, Lily Cole (2020)

—Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race, Reni Eddo-Lodge (2017) (X)

—Why We Swim, Bonnie Tsui (2020)

—Women Who Run With The Wolves: Contacting the Power of the Wild Woman, Clarissa Pinkola Estés (1992) (X)

#emma watson #masterlist #emma watson masterlist

[celestial-bastard]

Top 5 favorite books?😊

oh hii tysm <3

moranifesto - caitlin moran (shes a journalist but not a shit one, it’s basically her personal manifesto & some of her life stories and i love it love it love it)

hyperbole and a half - allie brosh (it’s mostly a comic. id be surprised if u don’t recognise her work as it’s been shared loads online BUT it’s so bloody funny i highly recommend)

aristotle and dante discover the secrets of the universe - benjamin alire sáenz (i read this one when i was quite ill so i don’t remember loads of the story i just remember really loving it a lot)

acid for the children - flea (autobiography of the bassist from the red hot chili peppers, definitely 18+ and not for the faint hearted but he describes his outlook on life and although it can be vulgar it can also be quite peasceful. discusses sex & drugs frequently)

i love this question a lot but it made me forget almost every book i’ve ever read so i’m just gonna put the gruffalo by julia donaldson. i read it SO much as a kid & it’s got a nice rhythm to it. i now read it frequently to the children i work with

#thank u luv u #i luv asks #this was really fun #i love books #edwardseffervescentsnails #ACTUALLY ALSO #the WORST book i have ever read in my life was a change of heart by jodie picoult. i HATED it i still dont understand what happened