Home
Authors
Tags
App
Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App
" Amsterdam has more than 150 canals and 1,250 bridges, but it never seems crowded, nor bent and bitter from fleecing the tourist. "
Julie Burchill
Bridges
Tourist
Never
Related Quotes:
" 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
Men
Doing
Feminism
" One Christmas build-up tradition, however, has totally bypassed me - that of going up to town and 'doing a show.' "
Julie Burchill
Tradition
Doing
Christmas
" 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. "
Julie Burchill
Lab
Man
Rat
" Knowing that the 'Sex and the City' chicks now rack up almost two centuries between them, why do some of us fuss and hiss about a bit of retouching on their forthcoming film poster? "
Julie Burchill
City
Why
Sex
" 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. "
Julie Burchill
Me
Fear
Body
" It may be a cliche, but it's true - the build-up to Christmas is so much more pleasurable than the actual day itself. "
Julie Burchill
Much
True
Christmas
" Can I just say here how much I hate the word 'pamper'? While pretending to celebrate and indulge women, it actually implies that their bodies are so revolting that even their 'me time' must be dedicated to turning them into living dolls if potential suitors are to be prevented from running screaming in horror. "
Julie Burchill
Time
Celebrate
Hate
" Shame, like beauty, is often in the eye of the beholder. "
Julie Burchill
Shame
Like
Beauty
" Nicole Kidman in particular seems to bring out the butt-kisser in the sassiest of hackettes, as they ceaselessly strive to portray her as some sort of cross between Mother Teresa and Marilyn Monroe. "
Julie Burchill
Bring
Her
Mother
" 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. "
Julie Burchill
Film
Fame
Red
" Families, generally, suck. And I say that as someone who, like my husband, had parents who proved the proverbial exception to the rule. "
Julie Burchill
Someone
Like
Say
" Blakes Hotel in South Kensington was a particular favourite of mine during what I affectionately think of as my Restless Years. "
Julie Burchill
Years
Think
Restless
" 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
Child
Hometown
Library
" What sort of sap doesn't know by now that picture-perfect beauty is all done with smoke and mirrors anyway? "
Julie Burchill
Now
Smoke
Mirrors
" 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. "
Julie Burchill
World
Surprise
Live
" A good part - and definitely the most fun part - of being a feminist is about frightening men. "
Julie Burchill
Feminist
Fun
Most
" The truth of the matter is, beauty is a specific thing, rare and fleeting. Some of us have it in our teens, 20s and 30s and then lose it; most of us have it not at all. And that's perfectly okay. But lying to yourself that you have it when you don't seems to me simple-minded at best and psychotic at worst. "
Julie Burchill
Best
Me
Truth
" 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. "
Julie Burchill
Early
Restaurant
Dinner
" Covering up, so far as I can see, is often the accompaniment to far more truly shameful behaviour than stripping off. "
Julie Burchill
More
Far
Up
" 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. "
Julie Burchill
Ideas
World
Women
" No one knows 'men' as such, any more than anyone knows 'women,' and if they do generalise they're probably trying to hide their own ignorance. You might know one 'man,' yes, or even lots of individual 'men'. "
Julie Burchill
Women
You
Man
" 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. "
Julie Burchill
Better
Cry
More
" It's received wisdom that the English are uniquely child-unfriendly. "
Julie Burchill
Wisdom
English
Uniquely
" Show me a frigid women and, nine times out of ten, I'll show you a little man. "
Julie Burchill
Women
Show
Me
" 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
Life
Death
Smile
" The secret is not to care what anyone thinks of you. "
Julie Burchill
Anyone
Secret
Thinks
" 'Stress' was the catch-all every pamper-pedlar I spoke to used to explain why healthy women feel the need to be regularly patted, petted and preened into a state of babyish beatification. "
Julie Burchill
Feel
Healthy
Need
" Women, more often than not, do things which aren't remotely relaxing but are all about preening, which is just another sort of work. "
Julie Burchill
More
Work
Women
" I don't have a spiritual bone in my body; but what I am, is religious. "
Julie Burchill
Spiritual
Bone
I Am
" 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. "
Julie Burchill
Attitude
Friendship
Friends