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.

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

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.