It may be a cliché, but it's true - the build-up to Christmas is so much more pleasurable than the actual day itself. Julie Burchill More Quotes by Julie Burchill More Quotes From 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. Julie Burchill feminism abortion men It has been said that a pretty face is a passport. But it's not, it's a visa, and it runs out fast. Julie Burchill cute-funny running beauty 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. Julie Burchill sympathy love death 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. Julie Burchill fighting giving people 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. Julie Burchill yummy believe thinking A good part - and definitely the most fun part - of being a feminist is about frightening men. Julie Burchill independent fun men A wedding is a funeral which masquerades as a feast. And the greater the pageantry, the deeper the savagery. Julie Burchill masquerade pageantry funeral 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. Julie Burchill feminism men kids The latest twist on the pampering concept is spa parties, where a group of friends take over an entire spa. Julie Burchill pampering twists party 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. Julie Burchill cuddling passion sex I feel I'm trying to get this really crap car going, and it just keeps stalling on me. And then other times I feel like my life's a train thundering toward me, and I'm in a car stuck on the crossroads and can't get out. Isn't it great being young! Julie Burchill crossroads car trying 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. Julie Burchill weekend heart beautiful 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. Julie Burchill abuse violence men 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. Julie Burchill islam sports people When I moved to Brighton from London in 1995, I was struck by what I thought of as its townliness. A town, it seemed to me, was that perfect place to live, neither city nor country, both of which like to think they are light years apart but actually have a great deal in common. Julie Burchill light country thinking As a child, I wanted only two things - to be left alone to read my library books, and to get away from my provincial hometown and go to London to be a writer. And I always knew that when I got there, I wanted to make loads of money. Julie Burchill two book children Depression is the most extreme form of vanity. Julie Burchill vanity form depression When the sex war is won prostitutes should be shot as collaborators for their terrible betrayal of all women. Julie Burchill betrayal war sex 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. Julie Burchill racist groups strange I just have a real problem with people who seek to portray fatness or thinness as moral concepts. Julie Burchill moral real people
