I am pathetically law-abiding.

Women are feminist by default.

Benedict Cumberbatch is very beautiful.

Let's all go and be feminists in the pub.

If you do it properly, life is art, really.

The revolution doesn't always look perfect.

I've generally got low levels of embarrassment.

All art is someone trying to tell you something.

I'm SO glad I spent 10 years being sad and lonely.

Watching 'Girls' has just given me renewed courage.

If you're not a confident person, pretend to be one.

If you eat enough books, you start pooping out words.

My parents were hippies. I'm the eldest of eight children.

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

I wish I could give up smoking, but it does taste so delicious.

I want a Zero Tolerance policy on All The Patriarchal Bullshit.

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

The world is difficult and we are all breakable. So just be kind.

Why on earth have I, because I'm a woman, got to be nice to everyone?

The problem with battling yourself is that even if you win, you lose.

A male feminist is one of the most glorious end-products of evolution.

Heaven. The biggest waste of our time we ever invented, outside jigsaws.

In the end I want to spend my 60s writing bonkbusters like Jilly Cooper.

In the end, I want to spend my 60s writing bonkbusters like Jilly Cooper.

Our world is afflicted by poverty. Don't spend all this money on clothes!

I just want Tina Fey to be my best friend. And Lena Dunham. And Oprah, too.

Telly never has any smart, amusing intellectuals living on a council estate.

I am not good at small talk. I will hide in a cupboard to avoid chitty-chat.

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

I’m neither ‘pro-women’ nor ‘anti-men’. I’m just ‘Thumbs up for the six billion

As a former ballerina, I can't put down Maggie Shipstead's new book, Astonish Me.

I hate that tabloid idea of anybody who is famous having to forfeit their privacy.

I wish I could learn that just three drinks is enough, but I have not learned that.

We need to reclaim the word feminism. We need to reclaim the word feminism real bad.

There are 3 billion women in the world, so there are 3 billion ways to be a feminist.

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

Once you become poor, tired and time-constrained, you become a much better human being.

I do not... look very feminine. Diana, Princess of Wales is feminine... I am... femi-none.

I love puffins. They are small, round gothic birds, and their babies are called pufflings.

You don't need to be legendary all the time. You can just be legendary for 10 minutes a day.

Self-harm - the world will come at you with knives anyway. You do not need to beat them to it.

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

If you can find a frock you look nice in and can run up three flights of stairs, you're not fat.

Oh God, are you supposed to collect things? I don't collect things. I like throwing things away.

As far as I'm concerned, you're a feminist by default if you're born in the Western world right now.

There are some women out there who are just going to look better with a mustache: that's statistics.

Simultaneously, my two biggest heroes are Susan Sontag and Morticia Addams from 'The Addams Family.'

Most women I know love the idea of fashion, but the practicalities that go with it are just distressing.

I like a little bit of revolution. I think it's a very good hobby for a young woman. Better than squash.

A library in the middle of a community is a cross between an emergency exit, a life raft and a festival.

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