Julie Burchill Quotes

One Christmas build-up tradition, however, has totally bypassed me - that of going up to town and doing a show.

When actresses jump on the anti-Iraq bandwagon, they often combine down-home momism with an ignorance of Islamist intent which is truly awesome.

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

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

Punk was over in two years. That was the only damn good thing about it.

Hooliganism incarnate, a walking, talking, screaming, squawking metaphor for What's Wrong With Young People Today.

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.

When I started at the Guardian, though, I couldnt think of anything we saw eye to eye on, except feminism, and even this would soon be arguable as Guardian writers queued up to drool over Eminem.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

No matter how old and glorious the models, sad indeed is the woman who sees fashion as a means of self-expression rather than an agent of social control.

Fact is, famous people say fame stinks because they love it so - like a secret restaurant or holiday island they don't want the hoi polloi to get their grubby paws on.

One Christmas build-up tradition, however, has totally bypassed me - that of going up to town and 'doing a show.'