Julie Burchill Quotes

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• The freedom that women were supposed to have found in the Sixties largely boiled down to easy contraception and abortion; things to make life easier for men, in fact.

  Julie Burchill

  Men, Abortion, Feminism

  Damaged Goods "Born Again Cows" (1986)

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• It has been said that a pretty face is a passport. But it's not, it's a visa, and it runs out fast.

  Julie Burchill

  Beauty, Running, Cute Funny

  Julie Burchill (1992). “Sex & Sensibility”

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• Tears are sometimes an inappropriate response to death. When a life has been lived completely honestly, completely successfully, or just completely, the correct response to death's perfect punctuation mark is a smile.

  Julie Burchill

  Love, Sympathy, Death

  "The New Encyclopedia of Christian Quotations". Book by Mark Water, p. 111, 2000.

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• Writing is more than anything a compulsion, like some people wash their hands thirty times a day for fear of awful consequences if they do not. It pays a whole lot better than this type of compulsion, but it is no more heroic.

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  Writing, Hands, People

  Julie Burchill (1992). “Sex & Sensibility”

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• A good part - and definitely the most fun part - of being a feminist is about frightening men.

  Julie Burchill

  Fun, Independent, Men

  "International Women’s Day Quotes: 16 Inspirational Feminist Quotes for IWD 2017". metro.co.uk. March 06, 2017.

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• The terrorist attacks were a tragedy for the people who died or were injured, and for their families and friends. For the rest of us, they were a wake-up call as to what type of lunatics we are dealing with. And sleepwalking our way back into ill-sorted, dewy-eyed people personal politics is the last thing we need to set us up for the fight ahead. Come on you liberals, don't give me the morbid pleasure of saying, 'I told you so' again.

  Julie Burchill

  Fighting, People, Giving

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• Depression is the most extreme form of vanity.

  Julie Burchill

  Depression, Vanity, Form

  "Growing pains" by Lynn Barber, www.theguardian.com. August 21, 2004.

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• A wedding is a funeral which masquerades as a feast. And the greater the pageantry, the deeper the savagery.

  Julie Burchill

  Funeral, Pageantry, Masquerade

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• It shouldn't come as any surprise that those who choose acting as a profession are phonies who live in a fantasy world. What is surprising is how many of them are blissfully unaware of it.

  Julie Burchill

  Acting, World, Fantasy

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• There's something brave and touching about game girls of all ages keeping themselves smart in hard times - one thinks of those wonderful women during World War II drawing stocking seams in eyebrow pencil up the back of legs stained with gravy browning because nylons were so hard to get hold of.

  Julie Burchill

  Girl, War, Smart

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• Prostitution is the supreme triumph of capitalism. When the sex war is won prostitutes should be shot as collaborators for their terrible betrayal of all women, for the moral tarring and feathering they give indigenous women who have had the bad luck to live in what they make their humping ground.

  Julie Burchill

  Sex, Betrayal, War

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• My favourite spectator sport is watching people who should know better searching for something, and often claiming to find it, where it never could be. Women claiming to find feminism in Islam is a good one.

  Julie Burchill

  Sports, People, Islam

  "Music to the ears". www.theguardian.com. May 9, 2003.

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• The latest twist on the pampering concept is spa parties, where a group of friends take over an entire spa.

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  Party, Pampering, Twists

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• As I get older I think, contrary to modern assumption but in line with the old Lerner and Lowe song, that it would actually benefit both them and society if - to quote Professor Higgins - a woman could be more like a man.

  Julie Burchill

  Song, Men, Thinking

  "Do women really need life tips from gay men?". www.theguardian.com. September 6, 2008.

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• Is the raggle-taggle Brangelina tribe any more bogus than that of the landlocked yummy mummy who believes that she can drop half a dozen brats and still keep a modest carbon footprint? I don't think so.

  Julie Burchill

  Believe, Thinking, Yummy

  "Suffer little children? Give me a break" by Julie Burchill, www.theguardian.com. August 2, 2008.

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• Sadly, a lot of what passes for feminism these days is just moaning about men, congratulating ourselves on nothing in particular, and mocking them for being big kids while doing everything we can to keep them that way.

  Julie Burchill

  Kids, Men, Feminism

  "Spare me from the whining women who are giving feminism a bad name" by Julie Burchill, www.theguardian.com. January 28, 2012.

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• I am firmly of the opinion that women who make a lot of effort to hang onto their looks in middle age (unless they are beauties, entertainers or prostitutes) are rather sad, as one should surely have something more substantial to recommend one by this time, such as kindness or cleverness.

  Julie Burchill

  Kindness, Effort, Age

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• And call me a pig, but isn't it brilliantly refreshing how early the Dutch eat dinner? When they're still laying out the cutlery in achingly hip Barcelona, they're hanging the Closed sign on the restaurant doors of old Amsterdam.

  Julie Burchill

  Pigs, Doors, Dinner

  "Chill factors". www.theguardian.com. January 3, 2004.

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• When the sex war is won prostitutes should be shot as collaborators for their terrible betrayal of all women.

  Julie Burchill

  Sex, Betrayal, War

  "Damaged Gods: Cults and Heroes Reappraised". Book by Julie Burchill, 1986.

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• As a child, I wanted only two things - to be left alone to read my library books, and to get away from my provincial hometown and go to London to be a writer. And I always knew that when I got there, I wanted to make loads of money.

  Julie Burchill

  Children, Book, Two

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• I have experienced jealousy, possessiveness, verbal abuse and violence from men, but I have also experienced jealousy, possessiveness, verbal abuse and violence from women, usually when I failed to respond to their advances.

  Julie Burchill

  Men, Abuse, Violence

  "Spare me from the whining women who are giving feminism a bad name" by Julie Burchill, www.theguardian.com. January 28, 2012.

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• Women, more often than not, do things which aren't remotely relaxing but are all about preening, which is just another sort of work.

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• Grooming oneself with all the crazed compulsion of an under-exercised lab rat in order to hook a rich man and obtain a lush lifestyle makes a certain (albeit seedy) sense.

  Julie Burchill

  Men, Order, Hook

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• It may be a cliché, but it's true - the build-up to Christmas is so much more pleasurable than the actual day itself.

  Julie Burchill

  Christmas, May, Cliche

  "Its a rat trap" by Julie Burchill, www.theguardian.com. December 12, 2003.

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• Graham Greene famously said that all writers need a chip of ice in their heart; Cusk can come across as the most beautiful ice palace of stalactites and stalagmites, and some people find her company, albeit by proxy, about as inviting as a long weekend in a walk-in frigidaire.

  Julie Burchill

  Beautiful, Heart, Weekend

  "Aftermath: On Marriage and Separation by Rachel Cusk - review" by Julie Burchill, www.theguardian.com. February 25, 2012.

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