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Caitlin Moran: My Favourite Things

The UK’s most prolific feminist thinker on feminism, defined eyebrows and "a good fiddle".

By Angela Ledgerwood

Published 31 January, 2026

Leadership

Caitlin Moran: My Favourite Things

The UK’s most prolific feminist thinker on feminism, defined eyebrows and "a good fiddle".

By Angela Ledgerwood

Published 31 January, 2026

Caitlin Moran, best known for her autobiographical book How to Be a Woman, is arguably the UK’s most prolific feminist thinker. She examines girlhood, womanhood, and sex—lots of sex and let’s not forget masturbation—in her brilliant, filthy and gasp-inducing books and columns. Her latest novel, How to Be Famous, the sequel to best-selling How to Build a Girl, is her most brazen book yet. “I wanted to write about what you do, as a girl, when someone more powerful than you tries to sexually shame you,” says Moran. “I started the book before the #MeToo movement but once that hit the news it couldn’t flow out of me fast enough.” Here she talks about some of her favorite things, like being a funny feminist, the necessity of defined eyebrows and “a good fiddle”.

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