"Grooming oneself with all the crazed compulsion of……" — Julie Burchill
"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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98 Quotes by Julie Burchill
Julie Burchill has 98 quotes on this site.
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Sadly, a lot of what passes for feminism these days is just moaning about men, congratulating ourselves on nothing in…
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The freedom that women were supposed to have found in the Sixties largely boiled down to easy contraception and abortion;…
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Amsterdam has more than 150 canals and 1,250 bridges, but it never seems crowded, nor bent and bitter from fleecing…
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As with most liberal sexual ideas, what makes the world a better place for men invariably makes it a duller…
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Being a monarchist - saying that one small group is born more worthy of respect than another - is just…
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Blakes Hotel in South Kensington was a particular favourite of mine during what I affectionately think of as my Restless…
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But just think what a boring, bread-and-milk world this would be without the boastful.
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Covering up, so far as I can see, is often the accompaniment to far more truly shameful behaviour than stripping…
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A good part - and definitely the most fun part - of being a feminist is about frightening men.
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Whenever I am sent a new book on the lively arts, the first thing I do is look for myself…
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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…
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Big women do themselves a disservice when they attempt to become the Righteous Fat (the Righteous Thin are bad enough,…
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Graham Greene famously said that all writers need a chip of ice in their heart; Cusk can come across as…
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Life is an ordeal, albeit an exciting one, but I wouldn't trade it for the good old days of poverty…
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The clever, albeit fragile, coalition against terrorism brought together by the U.S. government might be able to advance the transition…
— Jurgen Habermas
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Estimates suggest that from 20 to 50 million Americans routinely, albeit illegally, smoke marijuana without the benefit of direct medical…
— Frances M. Young
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Distrust even Mathematics; albeit so sublime and highly perfected, we have here a machine of such delicacy it can only…
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There are plenty of men who philander during the summer, to be sure, but they are usually the same lot…
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The true wisdom of the philosopher ought to insist in enjoying everything. Yet we apply ourselves to dissecting and destroying…
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I imagine it was much different in the 1970s. That was the Renaissance for black actors, albeit in blaxploitation movies.…
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The ecclesial communities which have not preserved the valid Episcopate and the genuine and integral substance of the Eucharistic mystery,…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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I do things differently, because I don't go by a rule book, because I lead from the heart, not the…
— Princess Diana
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Testing of self is a regular part of our own lives, so it seems natural to make it a part…
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