Julie Burchill
» Bereavement » “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.”
» Faces » “It has been said that a pretty face is a passport. But it’s not, it’s a visa, and it runs out fast.”
» Feminism » “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.”
» Feminism » “A good part — and definitely the most fun part — of being a feminist is about frightening men.”
» Frigidity » “Show me a frigid women and, nine times out of ten, I’ll show you a little man.”
» Hollywood » “Fame is no sanctuary from the passing of youth… suicide is much easier and more acceptable in Hollywood than growing old gracefully.”
» Liberals » “As with most liberal sexual ideas, what makes the world a better place for men invariably makes it a duller and more dangerous place for women.”
» Men and Women » “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.”
» Writers and Writing » “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.”
