“Hooliganism incarnate, a walking, talking, screaming, squawking metaphor for What's Wrong With Young People Today.” PeopleTodayYoungTalkingWalkingMetaphor Author:Julie Burchill
“My favourite spectator sport is watching people who should know better searching for something, and often claiming to find it, where it never could be. Women claiming to find feminism in Islam is a good one.” PeopleKnowsShouldSportsFeminismIslamFavouriteSpectators Author:Julie Burchill
“Mind you, I've always been a very off-message type of fat broad; one who gladly admits she reached the size she is now solely through lack of discipline and love of pleasure, and who rather despises people (except those with proven medical conditions) who pretend that it is generally otherwise.” PeopleMindPleasureConditionsTypeDisciplineMessagesAnd LoveSizeMedicalFatsBroadsDespiseProvenMedical Conditions Author:Julie Burchill
“I just have a real problem with people who seek to portray fatness or thinness as moral concepts.” PeopleRealProblemMoralConceptsReal ProblemsFatnessThinness 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.” PeopleLooksInterestMy OwnMajority Author:Julie Burchill
“People - and I include myself - get fat because they choose pleasure over self-denial.” PeopleSelfPleasureFatsDenialSelf-denial 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.” PeopleBelieveChildrenCareBeautifulHurtGrowingNotionTeethFairyQuartersEasterSantaSanta ClausBunniesTooth FairyTouchyBelieve In SantaEaster Bunny 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.” PeopleNeedsHeartLongSaidBeautifulWalksCompanyIceWeekendChipsPalacesInvitingProxyLong Weekend Author:Julie Burchill
“The terrorist attacks were a tragedy for the people who died or were injured, and for their families and friends. For the rest of us, they were a wake-up call as to what type of lunatics we are dealing with. And sleepwalking our way back into ill-sorted, dewy-eyed people personal politics is the last thing we need to set us up for the fight ahead. Come on you liberals, don't give me the morbid pleasure of saying, 'I told you so' again.” PeopleWayNeedsGivingLastsFightingPleasureTypeGive MeTragedyWake UpDiedIslamIllTerroristFamily And FriendsInjuredMorbidTerrorist AttacksWake Up CallSleepwalkingTold You So Author:Julie Burchill
“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.” PeopleIfsWritingWholeHandsPayTypeConsequenceAwfulThirtyHeroicCompulsion Book:Sex & Sensibility Source: Sex & Sensibility
