Quotes By Julie Burchill

It has been said that a pretty face is a passport. But it's not, it's a visa, and it runs out fast.

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.

Whenever I am sent a new book on the lively arts, the first thing I do is look for myself in the index.

A good part - and definitely the most fun part - of being a feminist is about frightening men.

Show me a frigid women and, nine times out of ten, I'll show you a little man.

Fame is no sanctuary from the passing of youth... suicide is much easier and more acceptable in Hollywood than growing old gracefully.

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.

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.

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.