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Julie Burchill is a British writer born on July 3, 1959. Known for her sharp commentary and unique style, her work spans across various domains including politics, culture, and society.

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“It may be a cliché, but it's true - the build-up to Christmas is so much more pleasurable than the actual day itself.”

May Christmas Cliche

Author:Julie Burchill

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

Knows Done Perfect Mirrors Smoke Sap Smoke And Mirrors Perfect Beauty Picture Perfect

Author:Julie Burchill

“I have experienced jealousy, possessiveness, verbal abuse and violence from men, but I have also experienced jealousy, possessiveness, verbal abuse and violence from women, usually when I failed to respond to their advances.”

Men Violence Abuse Possessiveness Verbal Abuse Abuse And Violence

Author:Julie Burchill

“Sadly, a lot of what passes for feminism these days is just moaning about men, congratulating ourselves on nothing in particular, and mocking them for being big kids while doing everything we can to keep them that way.”

Men Way Bigs Kids Feminism Particular These Days Moaning

Author:Julie Burchill

“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.”

Men Facts Found Easy Feminism Easier Abortion Sixty Contraception

Author:Julie Burchill

“Amsterdam has more than 150 canals and 1,250 bridges, but it never seems crowded, nor bent and bitter from fleecing the tourist.”

Seems Bitter Bridges Bent Crowded Tourists Canals Amsterdam

Author:Julie Burchill

“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 World Ideas Women Dangerous Better Place Dangerous Places

Book:Sex & Sensibility

Source: Sex & Sensibility

“Being a monarchist - saying that one small group is born more worthy of respect than another - is just as warped and strange as being a racist.”

Born Groups Strange Worthy Racist Small Groups

Author:Julie Burchill

“Blakes Hotel in South Kensington was a particular favourite of mine during what I affectionately think of as my Restless Years.”

Thinking Years Mines Particular South Hotel Favourite Restless Blake

Author:Julie Burchill

“But just think what a boring, bread-and-milk world this would be without the boastful.”

Thinking World Would Be Boring Bread Milk

Author:Julie Burchill

“Covering up, so far as I can see, is often the accompaniment to far more truly shameful behaviour than stripping off.”

I Can Behaviour Covering Shameful Stripping

Author:Julie Burchill

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

Growing Youth Easier Fame Hollywood Suicide Passing Passings Acceptable Growing Old Sanctuary Old Hollywood Growing Old Gracefully

Author:Julie Burchill

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

Parent Husband Exception My Husband Proverbial Exception To The Rule

Author:Julie Burchill

“Gluttony and idleness are two of life's great joys, but they are not honourable.”

Two Joy Idleness Great Joy Gluttony

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“Having 'best friends' is - at least for me - as outdated and small-minded a concept as the idea of 'Sunday best clothes.'”

Ideas Clothes Concepts Sunday Outdated Sunday Best

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“I just have a real problem with people who seek to portray fatness or thinness as moral concepts.”

People Real Problem Moral Concepts Real Problems Fatness Thinness

Author:Julie Burchill

“I know that Brighton is famously a mixture of the seedy and the elegant, but in the summer of 2001 seediness swamped elegance hands down.”

Knows Hands Summer Elegant Elegance Mixtures Brighton

Book:Made in Brighton: From the Grand to the Gutter: Modern Britain as Seen from Beside the Sea

Source: Made in Brighton: From the Grand to the Gutter: Modern Britain as Seen from Beside the Sea

“I wouldn't know how to fool a man any more. My deceiving days seem so long ago.”

Knows Men Long Seems Know How Fool Deceiving Long Ago

Author:Julie Burchill

“I'll declare my own interest right here at the start and admit that, like the vast majority of people, I find youthful looks appealing.”

People Looks Interest My Own Majority

Author:Julie Burchill

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

Ifs Past Nostalgic

Author:Julie Burchill

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

Children Unfriendly

Author:Julie Burchill

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

Hard Used Imagine England Consumers Phrases

Author:Julie Burchill

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

Men Fellows Commit Display Immature Reluctance Being Immature

Author:Julie Burchill

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

People Self Pleasure Fats Denial Self-denial

Author:Julie Burchill

“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.”

Book Eye Pages Insight Pops Prose Volume Bops

Author:Julie Burchill

“Some say that Cusk has no sense of humour, but expecting giggles from this writer would be akin to expecting sonnets from Benny Hill.”

Would Be Humour Hills Expecting Sonnet Giggle

Author:Julie Burchill

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

Careers Doomed Insecure Ageing

Author:Julie Burchill

“The latest twist on the pampering concept is spa parties, where a group of friends take over an entire spa.”

Party Groups Concepts Twists Group Of Friends Spas Pampering

Author:Julie Burchill

“When a man wants to relax, he will slob out and really relax. Or he will pursue a hobby - anything from building models to watching sport.”

Men Want Sports Building Models Pursue Relax Hobbies Watching Sports

Author: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.”

Home Ignorance Iraq Actresses Islamists Bandwagon

Author:Julie Burchill

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

Looks Empires Conducting Inmates Ottomans Ottoman Empire

Author:Julie Burchill

“Women, more often than not, do things which aren't remotely relaxing but are all about preening, which is just another sort of work.”

Author:Julie Burchill

“I don't really care what people tell children - when you believe in Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny and the Tooth Fairy, one more fib won't hurt. But I am infuriated by the growing notion, posited in some touchy-feely quarters, that all women are, or can be, beautiful.”

People Believe Children Care Beautiful Hurt Growing Notion Teeth Fairy Quarters Easter Santa Santa Claus Bunnies Tooth Fairy Touchy Believe In Santa Easter Bunny

Author:Julie Burchill

“It shouldn't come as any surprise that those who choose acting as a profession are phonies who live in a fantasy world. What is surprising is how many of them are blissfully unaware of it.”

World Acting Fantasy Surprise Profession Surprising Phony Fantasy Worlds

Author:Julie Burchill

“My second husband believed I had such a fickle attitude to friendship that each Friday he would update the list of my 'Top Ten' friends in the manner of a Top Of The Pops chart countdown.”

Attitude Ten Husband Pops Lists Friday Fickle Updates Countdown

Author:Julie Burchill

“And call me a pig, but isn't it brilliantly refreshing how early the Dutch eat dinner? When they're still laying out the cutlery in achingly hip Barcelona, they're hanging the Closed sign on the restaurant doors of old Amsterdam.”

Stills Doors Dinner Hips Restaurants Call Me Pigs Dutch Refreshing Barcelona Amsterdam Cutlery

Author:Julie Burchill

“As a kid, I grew to define what I didn't want my life to be like by sitting behind moaning women on the bus, hearing them bang on about their aches and pains, both real and imagined.”

Want Real Kids Pain Behinds Grew Sitting Hearing Bus Ache Bangs Moaning Aches And Pains

Author:Julie Burchill

“As a precocious teen I dreamed of being Graham Greene. Well, as it turned out, I never wrote a great novel, sadly, and I never converted to Catholicism, happily, but I did do one thing he did. That is, in middle age I moved to a seaside town and got into a right barney with the local powers-that-be.”

Wells Age Novel One Thing Middle Towns Moved Locals Catholicism Middle Ages Precocious Great Novels

Book:Made in Brighton: From the Grand to the Gutter: Modern Britain as Seen from Beside the Sea

Source: Made in Brighton: From the Grand to the Gutter: Modern Britain as Seen from Beside the Sea

“As I get older I think, contrary to modern assumption but in line with the old Lerner and Lowe song, that it would actually benefit both them and society if - to quote Professor Higgins - a woman could be more like a man.”

Ifs Thinking Men Song Lines Modern Benefits Contrary Assumption Professors Lowes

Author:Julie Burchill

“Being a monarchist, and fawning over those 'above' you, you must naturally despise those 'below' or on the same socioeconomic level as yourself, because that is how hierarchy worship works.”

Levels Worship Despise Hierarchy

Author:Julie Burchill

“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.”

People Needs Heart Long Said Beautiful Walks Company Ice Weekend Chips Palaces Inviting Proxy Long Weekend

Author: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.”

Men Certain Order Rich Oneself Lifestyle Rats Hook Compulsion Rich Man Labs Grooming Lush

Author:Julie Burchill

“Here in Barcelona, it's the architects who built the buildings that made the city iconic who are the objects of admiration - not a bunch of half-witted monarchs.”

Made Cities Half Objects Building Built Bunch Admiration Architect Iconic Monarchs Barcelona

Author:Julie Burchill

“I almost choke on my popcorn when I hear film stars, who walk on red carpets as much as the rest of us do on zebra crossings, criticising youngsters who crave fame.”

Film Stars Walks Fame Red Crave Carpet Choke Crossings Youngsters Red Carpet Popcorn Film Stars Zebras

Author:Julie Burchill

“I am firmly of the opinion that women who make a lot of effort to hang onto their looks in middle age (unless they are beauties, entertainers or prostitutes) are rather sad, as one should surely have something more substantial to recommend one by this time, such as kindness or cleverness.”

Should Looks Age Effort Opinion Kindness Middle Middle Ages Entertainers Cleverness

Author:Julie Burchill

“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 Christian Zionist, as well as a Christian feminist and a Christian socialist.”

Believe Wells Christian I Believe Lord Jew Feminist Socialist Testament Old Testament Protestants Zionist

Author:Julie Burchill

“I didn't cry when I left free-booting, smash-and-grab papers that would have appeared to be far more natural homes for me and, at the risk of being vulgar, paid far better for my services.”

Home Left Natural Risk Cry Paper Paid Papers Vulgar

Author:Julie Burchill

“In Barcelona, things seem so different. For example, I know that it's traditionally the least Spanish city, but you'd never know they had a monarchy, coming here as a tourist - as opposed to the UK, where the Queen is probably the best-known animal, vegetable and/or mineral going when it comes to overseas visitors.”

Knows Different Seems Animal Cities Known Example Queens Vegetables Monarchy Tourists Visitors Minerals Barcelona

Author: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 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.”

Way Three Hours Type Husband Thirds Sick Holes Extras Bags Maps Plastic Wales Carrier Laid Back Devon

Author:Julie Burchill

“Is the raggle-taggle Brangelina tribe any more bogus than that of the landlocked yummy mummy who believes that she can drop half a dozen brats and still keep a modest carbon footprint? I don't think so.”

Thinking Believe Stills Half Dozen Modest Carbon Tribes Footprint Mummy Brat Yummy Carbon Footprint

Author:Julie Burchill

About the Author

Born: July 3, 1959
Known for: Writer
Quotes: 130

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