“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 should bother going to parties.” ThinkingShouldYearsAgePartyBotherNew YearNew Years Eve 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.” WellsAgeNovelOne ThingMiddleTownsMovedLocalsCatholicismMiddle AgesPrecociousGreat 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
“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.” ShouldLooksAgeEffortOpinionKindnessMiddleMiddle AgesEntertainersCleverness Author:Julie Burchill
“There's something brave and touching about game girls of all ages keeping themselves smart in hard times - one thinks of those wonderful women during World War II drawing stocking seams in eyebrow pencil up the back of legs stained with gravy browning because nylons were so hard to get hold of.” ThinkingWorldWarHardAgeGirlGamesWonderfulSmartBraveLegsDrawingWar Of The WorldsHard TimesTouchingWorld War IiPencilsEyebrowsStockingsGravyWonderful WomanNylon Author:Julie Burchill
