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Julie Burchill
British
Journalist
About the author
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,
British
Journalist
#Life
#Freedom
#Abortion
#Fact
#Women
Fame is no sanctuary from the passing of youth... suicide is much easier and more acceptable in Hollywood than growing old gracefully.
Julie Burchill,
British
Journalist
#Hollywood
#Youth
#Old
#Fame
#Suicide
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,
British
Journalist
#Life
#Death
#Smile
#Tears
Whenever I am sent a new book on the lively arts, the first thing I do is look for myself in the index.
Julie Burchill,
British
Journalist
#First
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,
British
Journalist
#Pretty
A woman who looks like a girl and thinks like a man is the best sort, the most enjoyable to be and the most pleasurable to have and to hold.
Julie Burchill,
British
Journalist
#Man
#Woman
A good part - and definitely the most fun part - of being a feminist is about frightening men.
Julie Burchill,
British
Journalist
#Fun
#Being
#Men
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,
British
Journalist
#World
#Men
#Ideas
#Women
#Liberal
Show me a frigid women and, nine times out of ten, I'll show you a little man.
Julie Burchill,
British
Journalist
#Man
#Women