Julie Burchill Quotes

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

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.

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.

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

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.