Caitlin Moran: ‘The most feminist thing you can do is tell the truth about your life as a woman’

Caitlin Moran (Alex Lake/PA)

“I must have something mis-wired in my brain,” says Caitlin Moran, speaking on the phone from her home in North London, “because I can talk about absolutely any aspect of my physical or emotional state, and just find it incredibly funny.”

It’s this humour and unflinching honesty that’s made Moran an icon and a role model. Her 2011 bestseller, How To Be A Woman, a delightfully witty exposé on being young and female, earned her a place on millions of bookshelves and at the forefront of feminist thought.