Do they have one special day where they feel like kings of the world and then go back to lives of quiet drudgery? No. … With stuff like this, you have to look at the men.

… And yet women now think of it as our “reward” to spend one incredibly expensive day acting like these twats, before biting the bullet, settling down, and never having another “special” day again. While there are plenty of awful things we can place at the door of men – wars, rape, nuclear weapons, stock market crashes, Top Gear, that thing where they put their hand down the front of their jogging bottoms and rearrange their sweaty knackers while on the bus, before touching a railing I then have to touch, too, all covered in their sweaty bollock-mist – weddings definitely come down to the ladies. If they did, they would be packing two tickets for a long weekend to Prague in their boxers, lest they suddenly come across a lady who needs romance RIGHT NOW. Imagine if men suffered from this demented level of over-preparation. With those kind of odds, you might just as well be keeping a backgammon board down there to entertain a group of elderly ladies in the event of emergencies. Ladies! On how many occasions in the last year have you needed to wear a tiny pair of skimpy undies? In other words, to break this right down, how many times have you suddenly, unexpectedly, had sex in a brightly lit room, with a hard-to please erotic connoisseur? Exactly. But in this respect, women have communally lost all reason. Women wear small underpants because they think they’re sexy. There are a bazillion things I wanted to quote from this book, but here are just a few. There are chapters on sex, shoes, menstruation, breasts, weddings, childbirth, and plastic surgery. Moran takes us from her teenage years to her forties, describing what it means to be a woman every step of the way. She’s a columnist, a TV critic, and wrote her first novel at the age of fifteen.Įverything about this book was funny but also completely RIGHT. She’s the author of Moranthology and most recently, How to Build a Girl. I’m coming late to the Caitlin Moran party, since I’ve read about her from many bloggers. I’m adding How to Be a Woman to that list. Last year I said that every woman should read The Confidence Code by Katty Kay and Claire Shipman.

How to Be a Woman by Caitlin Moran