Julie Burchill quotes - page 3

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)
People - and I include myself - get fat because they choose pleasure over self-denial. View quote
Julie Burchill
When actresses jump on the anti-Iraq bandwagon, they often combine down-home momism with an ignorance of Islamist intent which is truly awesome. View quote
Julie Burchill
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. View quote
Julie Burchill
Big women do themselves a disservice when they attempt to become the Righteous Fat (the Righteous Thin are bad enough, all that running around and sweating, somehow believing it means anything). View quote
Julie Burchill
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? View quote
Julie Burchill
In my third husband I had discovered a blissfully laid-back type who thought it nothing less than hilarious when I misread the map on the way to Wales, so it took us an extra three hours, or when I was sick in a plastic carrier bag during much of the drive back from Devon - a bag that turned out to have a hole in it. View quote
Julie Burchill
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. View quote
Julie Burchill
It may be a cliche, but it's true - the build-up to Christmas is so much more pleasurable than the actual day itself. View quote
Julie Burchill
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. View quote
Julie Burchill
Fame is no sanctuary from the passing of youth... suicide is much easier and more acceptable in Hollywood than growing old gracefully. (Julie Burchill)
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. View quote
Julie Burchill
I just have a real problem with people who seek to portray fatness or thinness as moral concepts. View quote
Julie Burchill
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. View quote
Julie Burchill
We may be saddled with Bush and Blair, but you've got Prince Charles (a big friend of the Islamic world, probably because of its large number of feudal kingdoms and hardline attitude to uppity women), the Catholic church (taking a brief break from buggering babies to condemn any western attack as "morally unacceptable") and posturing pansies such as Sean Penn, Sheryl Crow and Damon Albarn. View quote
Julie Burchill
Cherie Blair can call herself a feminist all she likes, but any feminist worth her salt would have made a point of having a termination - on the NHS, naturally - when she got knocked up the last time. . . Famous women would rather admit to having been sexually abused as children than to having had a termination. . . Myself, I'd as soon weep over my taken tonsils or my absent appendix as snivel over those [five] abortions. I had a choice, and I chose life - mine. View quote
Julie Burchill
Monarchists frequently declare that without the royal family, Britain would be 'nothing.' What a woeful lack of love for one's country such statements express. View quote
Julie Burchill
What sort of sap doesn't know by now that picture-perfect beauty is all done with smoke and mirrors anyway? View quote
Julie Burchill
In Barcelona, things seem so different. For example, I know that it's traditionally the least Spanish city, but you'd never know they had a monarchy, coming here as a tourist - as opposed to the UK, where the Queen is probably the best-known animal, vegetable and/or mineral going when it comes to overseas visitors. View quote
Julie Burchill
I don't have a spiritual bone in my body; but what I am, is religious. View quote
Julie Burchill
Gluttony and idleness are two of life's great joys, but they are not honourable. (Julie Burchill)
Having 'best friends' is - at least for me - as outdated and small-minded a concept as the idea of 'Sunday best clothes.' View quote
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. View quote
Julie Burchill
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. View quote
Julie Burchill
I wouldn't know how to fool a man any more. My deceiving days seem so long ago. View quote
Julie Burchill