Julie Burchill

From paying off friends' tax bills to rescuing stray dogs and stuffing £20 notes into the hands of homeless people, I can't…

— Julie Burchill

Surely being a Professional Beauty - let alone an ageing one - is one of the most insecure and doomed careers imaginable.

— Julie Burchill

A woman who looks like a girl and thinks like a man is the best sort, the most enjoyable to be and…

— Julie Burchill

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

— Julie Burchill

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

— Julie Burchill

No matter how old and glorious the models, sad indeed is the woman who sees fashion as a means of self-expression rather…

— Julie Burchill

When actresses jump on the anti-Iraq bandwagon, they often combine down-home momism with an ignorance of Islamist intent which is truly awesome.

— Julie Burchill

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

— Julie Burchill

The money I pay for my cultural experiences came willingly from my own pocket - they were not the result of bread…

— Julie Burchill

'Stress' was the catch-all every pamper-pedlar I spoke to used to explain why healthy women feel the need to be regularly patted,…

— Julie Burchill

Feminism seeks to turn the biggest, bloodiest carnivore in the world - passion - into a right-on cud-chewing vegan. It can never…

— Julie Burchill

There's something brave and touching about game girls of all ages keeping themselves smart in hard times - one thinks of those…

— Julie Burchill

In my third husband I had discovered a blissfully laid-back type who thought it nothing less than hilarious when I misread the…

— Julie Burchill

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

Contrasting British servicemen and women with the appeasers, it is hard not to laugh. Are these two sides even the same species,…

— Julie Burchill

My second husband believed I had such a fickle attitude to friendship that each Friday he would update the list of my…

— Julie Burchill

Being a child is horrible. It is slightly better than being a tree or a piece of heavy machinery but not half…

— Julie Burchill

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

What sort of sap doesn't know by now that picture-perfect beauty is all done with smoke and mirrors anyway?

— Julie Burchill

To believe that one, or even three, mates can supply all the things one needs from one's friends is as stupid as…

— Julie Burchill

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

— Julie Burchill

Here in Barcelona, it's the architects who built the buildings that made the city iconic who are the objects of admiration -…

— Julie Burchill

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…

— Julie Burchill

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

— Julie Burchill

Families, generally, suck. And I say that as someone who, like my husband, had parents who proved the proverbial exception to the…

— Julie Burchill

Being a monarchist - saying that one small group is born more worthy of respect than another - is just as warped…

— Julie Burchill

Fame is no sanctuary from the passing of youth... suicide is much easier and more acceptable in Hollywood than growing old gracefully.

— Julie Burchill

The allegedly 'classy' magazines often seem to be in an endless, undeclared competition to see who can climb furthest up the fundament…

— Julie Burchill

Fact is, famous people say fame stinks because they love it so - like a secret restaurant or holiday island they don't…

— Julie Burchill

Whenever I am sent a new book on the lively arts, the first thing I do is look for myself in the…

— Julie Burchill

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

— Julie Burchill

As a militant troublemaker, I once wrote that it was the duty of every woman worthy of the description to upset men…

— Julie Burchill

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

— Julie Burchill

As with most liberal sexual ideas, what makes the world a better place for men invariably makes it a duller and more…

— Julie Burchill

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

— Julie Burchill

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

— Julie Burchill

People often yearn back to more innocent times, but more and more, as I get older, I find myself hankering after more…

— Julie Burchill

It's very hard to imagine the phrase 'consumer society' used so cheerfully, and interpreted so enthusiastically, in England.

— Julie Burchill

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

— Julie Burchill

When a man wants to relax, he will slob out and really relax. Or he will pursue a hobby - anything from…

— Julie Burchill