Julie Burchill Quotes - Page 2

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• Feminism seeks to turn the biggest, bloodiest carnivore in the world - passion - into a right-on cud-chewing vegan. It can never work. Sex was never meant to be that way. Sex, on the whole, was meant to be short, nasty and brutish. If what you want is cuddling, you should buy a puppy.

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  Sex, Passion, Cuddling

  Julie Burchill (1992). “Sex & Sensibility”

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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.

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  Christmas, May, Cliche

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

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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.

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  Pigs, Doors, Dinner

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

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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.

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  Men, Order, Hook

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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.

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  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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• Only those who haven't got the wit to speak for themselves would ever want their clothes to do it for them.

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  Clothes, Want, Speak

  "Dazed & confused". www.theguardian.com. March 3, 2000.

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• People - and I include myself - get fat because they choose pleasure over self-denial.

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  Self, People, Denial

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• If you want sex, have an affair. If you want a relationship, buy a dog.

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  Dog, Sex, Want

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• Sex, on the whole, was meant to be short, nasty and brutish. If what you want is cuddling, you should buy a puppy.

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  Sex, Cuddling, Want

  Julie Burchill (1992). “Sex & Sensibility”

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• 'Stress' was the catch-all every pamper-pedlar I spoke to used to explain why healthy women feel the need to be regularly patted, petted and preened into a state of babyish beatification.

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  Stress, Healthy, Needs

  "A suitable case for treatment". www.theguardian.com. February 22, 2008.

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• Covering up, so far as I can see, is often the accompaniment to far more truly shameful behaviour than stripping off.

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  Covering, Behaviour, Stripping

  "Modesty be damned. If you've got it, you've got every right to flaunt it" by Julie Burchill, www.theguardian.com. September 22, 2012.

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• A cynic should never marry an idealist. For the cynic, marriage represents the welcome end of romantic life, with all its agony and ecstasy. But for the idealist, it is only the beginning.

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  Agony, Welcome, Cynicism

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• It's received wisdom that the English are uniquely child-unfriendly.

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  Children, Unfriendly

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

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• I don't have a spiritual bone in my body; but what I am, is religious.

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  Spiritual, Religious, Body

  "For the love of Christ". www.theguardian.com. August 14, 2008.

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• A woman who looks like a girl and thinks like a man is the best sort, the most enjoyable to be and the most pleasurable to have and to hold.

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  Girl, Men, Thinking

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• To believe that one, or even three, mates can supply all the things one needs from one's friends is as stupid as believing married couples must do everything together.

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  Couple, Stupid, Believe

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• When did women whose looks are not their living start conducting themselves like the simpering inmates of an Ottoman empire seraglio?

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  Looks, Ottomans, Inmates

  "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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• Transsexualism is, basically, just another, more drastic twist on the male menopause.

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  Twists, Males, Menopause

  Daniel Raven, Julie Burchill (2010). “Made In Brighton: From the grand to the gutter: Modern Britain as seen from beside the sea”, p.144, Random House

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• In my third husband I had discovered a blissfully laid-back type who thought it nothing less than hilarious when I misread the map on the way to Wales, so it took us an extra three hours, or when I was sick in a plastic carrier bag during much of the drive back from Devon - a bag that turned out to have a hole in it.

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  Husband, Sick, Laid Back

  "Things I've never done before: My first time driving" by Julie Burchill, www.theguardian.com. March 7, 2008.

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• Lots of women love to accuse men of being immature when the fellow in question displays a reluctance to "commit"...

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  Men, Immature, Reluctance

  "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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• The truth of the matter is, beauty is a specific thing, rare and fleeting. Some of us have it in our teens, 20s and 30s and then lose it; most of us have it not at all. And that's perfectly okay. But lying to yourself that you have it when you don't seems to me simple-minded at best and psychotic at worst.

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  Lying, Simple, Fleeting

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• The money I pay for my cultural experiences came willingly from my own pocket - they were not the result of bread being removed from the mouths of the poor so that Miss Thing here could mince off to the circus smelling of roses.

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  Rose, Missing, Pockets

  Julie Burchill, Daniel Raven (2007). “Made in Brighton: From the Grand to the Gutter: Modern Britain as Seen from Beside the Sea”, Virgin Books Limited

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• Now the whole dizzying and delirious range of sexual possibilities has been boiled down to that one big, boring, bulimic word. RELATIONSHIP.

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  Relationship, Boring, Possibility

  Julie Burchill (1992). “Sex & Sensibility”

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• I feel even less patience with transsexuals.

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  Feels, Transsexuals

  "Gender bending". www.theguardian.com. January 20, 2001.

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• Rachel Cusk's books are like pop-up volumes for grown-ups, the prose springing out of the page to bop you neatly between the eyes with its insights.

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  Book, Eye, Pages

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