The Feminist Me says that a woman's right to her own body should be inviolate at all times, free from fear of… — Julie Burchill Copy Share Image
The freedom that women were supposed to have found in the Sixties largely boiled down to easy contraception and abortion; things to… — Julie Burchill Copy Share Image
Women, more often than not, do things which aren't remotely relaxing but are all about preening, which is just another sort of… — Julie Burchill Copy Share Image
A good part - and definitely the most fun part - of being a feminist is about frightening men. — Julie Burchill Copy Share Image
Most women are wise to the fact that lots of men love a cat-fight, and thus go out of their way not… — Julie Burchill Copy Share Image
As a militant troublemaker, I once wrote that it was the duty of every woman worthy of the description to upset men… — Julie Burchill Copy Share Image
As with most liberal sexual ideas, what makes the world a better place for men invariably makes it a duller and more… — Julie Burchill Copy Share Image
Feminism seeks to turn the biggest, bloodiest carnivore in the world - passion - into a right-on cud-chewing vegan. It can never… — Julie Burchill Copy Share Image
One of the few ways in which I feel I've actually matured is that as I've grown older I do find the… — Julie Burchill Copy Share Image
When I started at the 'Guardian,' though, I couldn't think of anything we saw eye to eye on, except feminism, and even… — Julie Burchill Copy Share Image
My favourite spectator sport is watching people who should know better searching for something, and often claiming to find it, where it… — Julie Burchill Copy Share Image
Sadly, a lot of what passes for feminism these days is just moaning about men, congratulating ourselves on nothing in particular, and… — Julie Burchill Copy Share Image
No one knows 'men' as such, any more than anyone knows 'women,' and if they do generalise they're probably trying to hide… — Julie Burchill Copy Share Image
Prostitution reinforces all the old dumb clichés about women's sexuality; that they are not built to enjoy sex and are little more… — Julie Burchill Copy Share Image
As a precocious teen I dreamed of being Graham Greene. Well, as it turned out, I never wrote a great novel, sadly, and I… — Julie Burchill Copy Share
Being a child is horrible. It is slightly better than being a tree or a piece of heavy machinery but not half as good… — Julie Burchill Copy Share
People - and I include myself - get fat because they choose pleasure over self-denial. — Julie Burchill Copy Share
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… — Julie Burchill Copy Share
I believe, literally, in the God of the Old Testament, whom I understand as the Lord of the Jews and the Protestants. I'm a… — Julie Burchill Copy Share
A cynic should never marry an idealist. For the cynic, marriage represents the welcome end of romantic life, with all its agony and ecstasy.… — Julie Burchill Copy Share
Surely being a Professional Beauty - let alone an ageing one - is one of the most insecure and doomed careers imaginable. — Julie Burchill Copy Share
Can I just say here how much I hate the word 'pamper'? While pretending to celebrate and indulge women, it actually implies that their… — Julie Burchill Copy Share
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… — Julie Burchill Copy Share
From paying off friends' tax bills to rescuing stray dogs and stuffing £20 notes into the hands of homeless people, I can't get rid… — Julie Burchill Copy Share
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… — Julie Burchill Copy Share
Hooliganism incarnate, a walking, talking, screaming, squawking metaphor for What's Wrong With Young People Today. — Julie Burchill Copy Share
I am firmly of the opinion that women who make a lot of effort to hang onto their looks in middle age (unless they… — Julie Burchill Copy Share
People often yearn back to more innocent times, but more and more, as I get older, I find myself hankering after more jaded days. — Julie Burchill Copy Share
