Memoir Quote by Caitlin Moran Download Open image “I could have written a misery memoir and instead I tried to make it funny. I never complained.” — Caitlin Moran ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.4 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Memoir Misery Writing Written
I thought, frankly, that it would be more pleasant to write a memoir than it was. — Jim Harrison Copy Share Image
When I was a journalist... toward the end of my career, it had started to feel like there was this revolving door of misery… — Cord Jefferson Copy Share Image
It was actually fun to write [memoir], because I went back to interview people my parents had taught or who had worked with them,… — Condoleezza Rice Copy Share Image
I never wanted/expected to write a memoir, but this life thing, it has a way of sideswiping our worlds, scaring us so thoroughly that… — Joshua Mohr Copy Share Image
Misery is the stuff of comedy, if one can just live long enough to get over it. — Charles Platt Copy Share Image
If I ever write an autobiography, 'Hilariously Unhappy' could very well be the title. — David Hewlett Copy Share Image
“Bármilyen idiótának, aki azt kérdezi: „Feminista vagy? Akkor elégeted a melltartóidat, mi? HE? Melltartókat égetsz, te feminista?” – szép nyugodtan így kell válaszolni: „Ostoba. OSTOBA! A melltartó a barátom. A legkebelebb baratom. Mellesleg. Kivéve az a Janet Reger-féle balconette melltartót, ami pár centivel kisebb volt a kelleténél, és elszorította a vérkeringést a fejem felé. Na ja. Azt az egyet lelocsoltam… — Caitlin Moran Copy Share
“You can tell whether some misogynistic societal pressure is being exerted on women by calmly enquiring, ‘And are the men doing this, as well?’… — Caitlin Moran Copy Share Image
You wanted to become a doctor to help people and feel better at the end of your job, I think, watching them, as the… — Caitlin Moran Copy Share Image
I think loads of women have this idea that their life is going to start at some point, once they've busted all these problems… — Caitlin Moran Copy Share Image
When you've got a mother who's given birth to eight children, you know, often without any kind of medical intervention - just she gave… — Caitlin Moran Copy Share Image
I’m neither ‘pro-women’ nor ‘anti-men’. I’m just ‘Thumbs up for the six billion — Caitlin Moran Copy Share Image
The doughy-faced woman has been forced to sit on the sidelines of culture for too long, and it's now time for us to stand… — Caitlin Moran Copy Share Image
“The more women argue, loudly, against feminism, the more they both prove it exists and that they enjoy its hard-won privileges.” — Caitlin Moran Copy Share Image
“...it's technically impossible for a woman to argue against feminism. Without feminism you wouldn't be allowed to have a debate on a woman's place… — Caitlin Moran Copy Share Image
“But if there is to be a fifth wave of feminism, I would hope that the main thing that distinguishes it from all that… — Caitlin Moran Copy Share Image
Why on earth have I, because I'm a woman, got to be nice to everyone? — Caitlin Moran Copy Share Image
The sort of the template of being a mother is that you're endlessly giving to the point of exhaustion. You know, that's amazing if you can do that, but for that to be seen as the norm of motherhood, that women are always supposed to give until they're exhausted, you know, to always take on all these burdens - and… — Caitlin Moran Copy Share
The memoir by women, read by female readers, is considered a market form, not "great literature." — Kate Zambreno Copy Share Image
“A bookshop is a peaceful sanctuary of silent voices waiting to heard” — Mala Naidoo Copy Share Image
I think some of the best sex writing is going to come from the unexpected sources, not the same old same old. Like I'd… — Rachel Kramer Bussel Copy Share Image
“When I first met Billy I thought about sucking his eyes right out of their sockets. They’re like turquoise gum drops.” — Jo Treggiari Copy Share Image
“I am not and autobiographical writer--one can't be without a solid and explicable self--and read all autobiographical writers with the same curiosity. What kind… — Yiyun Li Copy Share Image
Memoirs are going to be problematic sells for a while, though, because even if memoir means "based in memory," right now, in the collective mind, memoir means "recovery." When my agent and I started looking at small presses the possibility for my book, I realized most small presses were not publishing memoir, because they don't want to be associated with… — Debra Monroe Copy Share
“FROM a six-year-old: Told by a well-meaning friend, ‘Alex, do you know what the one thing is that the more you give, the more… — Susan Hamilton Copy Share Image
“I used to teach at an abused children's home. I told the kids, "You all have a manure pile of memories. Nothing you can do about that. Now you can drown in the stink or turn it into compost and grow a garden. I wouldn't't be as good a teacher to you if I didn't know what you're going through.… — Rebecca O'Donnell Copy Share
A memoir takes some particular threads, some incidents, some experience from a person's life and gives an account of it. — Richard Hell Copy Share Image
By calling it a memoir, I meant is as a collection of memories. I thought it was (a more) artful (title) than documentary. — Natalie Merchant Copy Share Image
“One thing I always admired about Daddy was the way he could bounce back from adversity. From the very beginning of his life, he’d had more than his share of broken dreams and disappointments. He lived through the Depression, a war, a couple of failed businesses and the deaths of two wives, but he always found a way to pick… — L.K. Campbell Copy Share
“As well as writing, 2004 saw my first attempt at wine making: the elixir of life. Unfortunately, my effort tasted more like the elixir… — Craig Briggs Copy Share Image