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I didn't cry when I left free-booting, smash-and-grab papers that would have appeared to be far more natural homes for me and, at the risk of being vulgar, paid far better for my services.

Julie Burchill

Home, Risk, Paper

"The long goodbye" by Julie Burchill, www.theguardian.com. December 26, 2003.

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It is also interesting to note that the original supermodels are now making a comeback after being dismissed in the Nineties as being 'greedy' by a gaggle of male designers who lived like Sun Kings.

Julie Burchill

Kings, Interesting, Males

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

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It must be said that Brighton, unlike London, makes driving seem very appealing. Instead of glowering faces and angry horns on all sides, we have the coast road in front of us and the Sussex Downs just 10 minutes behind us.

Julie Burchill

London, Faces, Sides

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

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Knowing that the 'Sex and the City' chicks now rack up almost two centuries between them, why do some of us fuss and hiss about a bit of retouching on their forthcoming film poster?

Julie Burchill

Sex, Cities, Two

"Why Photoshop is a feminist's best friend". www.theguardian.com. May 10, 2008.

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Make no mistake, most women are well aware that they've never had it so good; when they enter a spa or salon, it is purely a hair/nails thing, a prelude to an evening of guilt-free fun.

Julie Burchill

Fun, Mistake, Hair

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

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Nicole Kidman in particular seems to bring out the butt-kisser in the sassiest of hackettes, as they ceaselessly strive to portray her as some sort of cross between Mother Teresa and Marilyn Monroe.

Julie Burchill

Mother, Strive, Crosses

"Unvarnished versus airbrushed" by Julie Burchill, www.theguardian.com. January 30, 2008.

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The allegedly 'classy' magazines often seem to be in an endless, undeclared competition to see who can climb furthest up the fundament of Gwyneth Paltrow or Jennifer Lopez.

Julie Burchill

Competition, Magazines, Endless

"Unvarnished versus airbrushed". www.theguardian.com. January 30, 2008.

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These women whose antics we smirk at good-naturedly in the pap-traps put themselves out there at least partly on their beauty; they are in showbiz, and showing what they've got is part of their business as much as it is for male show-ponies from the Chippendales to George Clooney.

Julie Burchill

Males, Smirk, Ponies

"Unvarnished versus airbrushed" by Julie Burchill, www.theguardian.com. January 30, 2008.

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What I find most upsetting about this new all-consuming beauty culture is that the obsession with good looks, and how you can supposedly attain them, is almost entirely female-driven.

Julie Burchill

Upset, Female, Culture

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What men don't want, in fact what anyone who's any sort of thrill-seeking, intelligent adult doesn't want, is some crushing bore describing their emotions in real time every waking hour.

Julie Burchill

Crush, Real, Intelligent

"What I know about men". www.theguardian.com. September 9, 2007.

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Show me a frigid woman and, nine times out of ten, I'll show you a little man.

Julie Burchill

Women, Heartless, Littles

Julie Burchill (1992). “Sex & Sensibility”

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The pictures from the first professional photo session that the young David
Beckham submitted himself to are extraordinary. He has a barely suppressed
smile, as though he and the cameraman are complicit in the understanding
that this is not yet David Beckham we see and that there is an element of
deceit in selling the photographs as such

Julie Burchill

Understanding, Deceit, Elements

Julie Burchill (2012). “On Beckham”, p.6, Random House

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One Christmas build-up tradition, however, has totally bypassed me - that of going up to town and doing a show.

Julie Burchill

Towns, Tradition, Shows

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

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I won't be going to any New Year's Eve parties because I think they're naff. No one over the age of 15 should bother going to parties.

Julie Burchill

New Year, Party, Thinking

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I have always voted Labour and I always will. I have got to have one stupid, bovine part of me and that's the part that votes Labour.

Julie Burchill

Stupid, Bovine, Vote

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May I just single out for salutations, on the "anti-war" side: Pop Stars For Appeasement, Dancers Against Democracy, Actors For Apathy, Fashionistas For Fascism and Jugglers For Genocide. All of them united under that flaccid flag of convenience, Show-Offs For Saddam.

Julie Burchill

Stars, War, Dancer

"Silly show-offs against Saddam!" by Julie Burchill, www.theguardian.com. February 28, 2003.

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Contrasting British servicemen and women with the appeasers, it is hard not to laugh. Are these two sides even the same species, let alone the same nationality? On one hand the selflessness and internationalism of the soldiers; on the other the Whites-First isolationism of the protesters. Excuse me, who are the idealists here?

Julie Burchill

Hands, Two Sides, Laughing

"Don't take my name in vain" by Julie Burchill, www.theguardian.com. March 28, 2013.

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Mind you, I've always been a very off-message type of fat broad; one who gladly admits she reached the size she is now solely through lack of discipline and love of pleasure, and who rather despises people (except those with proven medical conditions) who pretend that it is generally otherwise.

Julie Burchill

Discipline, People, Mind

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Big women do themselves a disservice when they attempt to become the Righteous Fat (the Righteous Thin are bad enough, all that running around and sweating, somehow believing it means anything).

Julie Burchill

Running, Believe, Mean

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I've never been nostalgic, personally or politically - if the past was so great, how come it's history?

Julie Burchill

Past, Nostalgic, Ifs

"Patriotism is for reactionaries ... nationalism is the way forward" by Julie Burchill, www.theguardian.com. September 8, 2012.

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Some say that Cusk has no sense of humour, but expecting giggles from this writer would be akin to expecting sonnets from Benny Hill.

Julie Burchill

Would Be, Hills, Expecting

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

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Hooliganism incarnate, a walking, talking, screaming, squawking metaphor for What's Wrong With Young People Today.

Julie Burchill

Talking, People, Today

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Prostitution reinforces all the old dumb clichés about women's sexuality; that they are not built to enjoy sex and are little more than walking masturbation aids, things to be done to, things so sensually null and void that they have to be paid to indulge in fornication, that women can be had, bought, as often as not sold from one man to another. 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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It seems that one moment I was this little kid only caring about animals and flowers and stuff, and then the next minute I was this raging stew of hormones. I don't know if you've ever been a raging stew of anything, but I wouldn't particularly recommend it.

Julie Burchill

Flower, Kids, Caring

Julie Burchill (2016). “Sugar Rush”, p.4, Pan Macmillan

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When I started at the Guardian, though, I couldnt think of anything we saw eye to eye on, except feminism, and even this would soon be arguable as Guardian writers queued up to drool over Eminem.

Julie Burchill

Eye, Thinking, Feminism

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