Julie Burchill Quotes - Page 2

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• 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.

  Julie Burchill

  Men, Order, Hook

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• Graham Greene famously said that all writers need a chip of ice in their heart; Cusk can come across as the most beautiful ice palace of stalactites and stalagmites, and some people find her company, albeit by proxy, about as inviting as a long weekend in a walk-in frigidaire.

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  Beautiful, Heart, Weekend

  "Aftermath: On Marriage and Separation by Rachel Cusk - review" by Julie Burchill, www.theguardian.com. February 25, 2012.

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• Only those who haven't got the wit to speak for themselves would ever want their clothes to do it for them.

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  Clothes, Want, Speak

  "Dazed & confused". www.theguardian.com. March 3, 2000.

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• 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.

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  Women, Ideas, World

  Julie Burchill (1992). “Sex & Sensibility”

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• Intersectionality may well sound like some unfortunate bowel complaint resulting in copious use of a colostomy bag, and indeed it does contain a large amount of ordure.

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  Sound, Doe, Bags

  Source: transadvocate.com

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• People - and I include myself - get fat because they choose pleasure over self-denial.

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  Self, People, Denial

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• 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.

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  Agony, Welcome, Cynicism

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• I don't have a spiritual bone in my body; but what I am, is religious.

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  Spiritual, Religious, Body

  "For the love of Christ". www.theguardian.com. August 14, 2008.

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• 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.

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  Girl, Men, Thinking

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

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  Sex, Cuddling, Want

  Julie Burchill (1992). “Sex & Sensibility”

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• If you want sex, have an affair. If you want a relationship, buy a dog.

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  Dog, Sex, Want

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• It's received wisdom that the English are uniquely child-unfriendly.

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  Children, Unfriendly

  "Suffer little children? Give me a break" by Julie Burchill, www.theguardian.com. August 2, 2008.

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• To believe that one, or even three, mates can supply all the things one needs from one's friends is as stupid as believing married couples must do everything together.

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  Couple, Stupid, Believe

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

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  Looks, Ottomans, Inmates

  "Spare me from the whining women who are giving feminism a bad name" by Julie Burchill, www.theguardian.com. January 28, 2012.

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• Transsexualism is, basically, just another, more drastic twist on the male menopause.

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  Twists, Males, Menopause

  Daniel Raven, Julie Burchill (2010). “Made In Brighton: From the grand to the gutter: Modern Britain as seen from beside the sea”, p.144, Random House

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• 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 the way to Wales, so it took us an extra three hours, or when I was sick in a plastic carrier bag during much of the drive back from Devon - a bag that turned out to have a hole in it.

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  Husband, Sick, Laid Back

  "Things I've never done before: My first time driving" by Julie Burchill, www.theguardian.com. March 7, 2008.

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

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  Men, Immature, Reluctance

  "Spare me from the whining women who are giving feminism a bad name" by Julie Burchill, www.theguardian.com. January 28, 2012.

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• The truth of the matter is, beauty is a specific thing, rare and fleeting. Some of us have it in our teens, 20s and 30s and then lose it; most of us have it not at all. And that's perfectly okay. But lying to yourself that you have it when you don't seems to me simple-minded at best and psychotic at worst.

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  Lying, Simple, Fleeting

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• The money I pay for my cultural experiences came willingly from my own pocket - they were not the result of bread being removed from the mouths of the poor so that Miss Thing here could mince off to the circus smelling of roses.

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  Rose, Missing, Pockets

  Julie Burchill, Daniel Raven (2007). “Made in Brighton: From the Grand to the Gutter: Modern Britain as Seen from Beside the Sea”, Virgin Books Limited

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• Feminism seeks to turn the biggest, bloodiest carnivore in the world - passion - into a right-on cud-chewing vegan. It can never work. Sex was never meant to be that way. Sex, on the whole, was meant to be short, nasty and brutish. If what you want is cuddling, you should buy a puppy.

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  Sex, Passion, Cuddling

  Julie Burchill (1992). “Sex & Sensibility”

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• I feel even less patience with transsexuals.

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  Feels, Transsexuals

  "Gender bending". www.theguardian.com. January 20, 2001.

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• Now the whole dizzying and delirious range of sexual possibilities has been boiled down to that one big, boring, bulimic word. RELATIONSHIP.

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  Relationship, Boring, Possibility

  Julie Burchill (1992). “Sex & Sensibility”

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• Rachel Cusk's books are like pop-up volumes for grown-ups, the prose springing out of the page to bop you neatly between the eyes with its insights.

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  Book, Eye, Pages

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• The Feminist Me says that a woman's right to her own body should be inviolate at all times, free from fear of peeping paps.

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  Feminist, Body, Should

  "Modesty be damned. If you've got it, you've got every right to flaunt it". www.theguardian.com. September 22, 2012.

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• I jest, of course; premature ejaculation isn't a laughing matter for anyone, except for your friends when you tell them about it on the phone the next morning. My first marriage ended because the main event was invariably over before my husband got his socks off.

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  Morning, Husband, Phones

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