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Julie Burchill Quotes

«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.»
«A good part - and definitely the most fun part - of being a feminist is about frightening men.»
«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.»
«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.»
«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.»
«Show me a frigid women and, nine times out of ten, I'll show you a little man.»
Author: Julie Burchill (Columnist) | Keywords: frigid, Show Me
«What Mrs. Thatcher did for women was to demonstrate that if a woman had enough desire she could do what she wanted, do anything a man could do. . . . Mrs. Thatcher did not have one traditional feminine cell in her body.»
«Whenever I am sent a new book on the lively arts, the first thing I do is look for myself in the index.»
«The 'g' is silent - the only thing about her that is.»
«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.»