One woman cannot properly define what it is to be a woman, but Caitlin Moran did strike a cord with me, nonetheless. We probably wouldn't be friends in real life, but I give her a firm nod of the head when it comes to addressing subjects that most people would have left at home. 
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 But on the plus side, I an not alone because - as with a million lonely girls and boys before - books, TV, and music are looking after me now. I am being raised by witches, wolves, and unexpected guest stars on late-night chat shows. 
 And every book, you find, has its own social group - friends of its own it wants to introduce you to, like a party in the library that need never, ever end. 
 Overeating is... a way of fucking yourself up while still remaining fully functional, because you have to...they are slowly self-destructing in a way that doesn't inconvenience anyone. 
 That's the minimum I ask from my footwear. To be able to dance in it, and for it not to get me murdered. 
 When a woman says, "I have nothing to wear!" what she really means is, "There's nothing here for who I'm supposed to be today." 
 And if a woman should say she doesn't want to have children at all, the world is apt to go decidedly peculiar: "Oooh, don't speak too soon," it will say - as if knowing whether or not you're the kind of person who desires to make a a whole other human being in your guts, out of sex and food, then base the rest of your life around its welfare, is a breezy, "Hey - whatever" decision. 
 But I don't think there's a single lesson that motherhood has to offer that couldn't be learned elsewhere. 
 But as the years went on, I realized that what I really want to be, all told, is a human. Just a productive, honest, courteously treated human.