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Some say that Cusk has no sense of humour, but expecting giggles from this writer would be akin to expecting sonnets from Benny Hill.
— Julie Burchill
But just think what a boring, bread-and-milk world this would be without the boastful.
— Julie Burchill
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
I've never been nostalgic, personally or politically - if the past was so great, how come it's history?
— Julie Burchill
Being a monarchist - saying that one small group is born more worthy of respect than another - is just as warped and strange as being a racist.
— Julie Burchill
I won't be going to any New Year's Eve parties because I think they're naff. No one over the age of 15 should bother going to parties.
— Julie Burchill
The latest twist on the pampering concept is spa parties, where a group of friends take over an entire spa.
— Julie Burchill
Surely being a Professional Beauty - let alone an ageing one - is one of the most insecure and doomed careers imaginable.
— Julie Burchill
Amsterdam has more than 150 canals and 1,250 bridges, but it never seems crowded, nor bent and bitter from fleecing the tourist.
— Julie Burchill
Most women are wise to the fact that lots of men love a cat-fight, and thus go out of their way not to give them one.
— Julie Burchill
Blakes Hotel in South Kensington was a particular favourite of mine during what I affectionately think of as my Restless Years.
— 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.
— Julie Burchill
When the sex war is won prostitutes should be shot as collaborators for their terrible betrayal of all women.
— Julie Burchill
Families, generally, suck. And I say that as someone who, like my husband, had parents who proved the proverbial exception to the rule.
— Julie Burchill
Covering up, so far as I can see, is often the accompaniment to far more truly shameful behaviour than stripping off.
— Julie Burchill
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
A wedding is a funeral which masquerades as a feast. And the greater the pageantry, the deeper the savagery.
— 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.
— Julie Burchill
Rachel Cusk's books are like pop-up volumes for grown-ups, the prose springing out of the page to bop you neatly between the eyes with its insights.
— Julie Burchill
I have always voted Labour and I always will. I have got to have one stupid, bovine part of me and that's the part that votes Labour.
— 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
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.
— Julie Burchill
My dad didn't drive - the only dad I knew who didn't.
— Julie Burchill
It's received wisdom that the English are uniquely child-unfriendly.
— Julie Burchill
There are exciting, intelligent, fat people - and exciting, intelligent, thin people.
— Julie Burchill
Now the whole dizzying and delirious range of sexual possibilities has been boiled down to that one big, boring, bulimic word. RELATIONSHIP.
— Julie Burchill
I feel even less patience with transsexuals
— Julie Burchill
A good part - and definitely the most fun part - of being a feminist is about frightening men.
— Julie Burchill
Having 'best friends' is - at least for me - as outdated and small-minded a concept as the idea of 'Sunday best clothes.'
— Julie Burchill
Women, more often than not, do things which aren't remotely relaxing but are all about preening, which is just another sort of work.
— 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.
— Julie Burchill
I just have a real problem with people who seek to portray fatness or thinness as moral concepts.
— Julie Burchill
Sex, on the whole, was meant to be short, nasty and brutish. If what you want is cuddling, you should buy a puppy.
— Julie Burchill
Transsexualism is, basically, just another, more drastic twist on the male menopause
— Julie Burchill
It's very hard to imagine the phrase 'consumer society' used so cheerfully, and interpreted so enthusiastically, in England.
— Julie Burchill
Being a child is horrible. It is slightly better than being a tree or a piece of heavy machinery but not half as good as being a domestic cat.
— Julie Burchill
Depression is the most extreme form of vanity.
— Julie Burchill
People often yearn back to more innocent times, but more and more, as I get older, I find myself hankering after more jaded days.
— Julie Burchill
Hooliganism incarnate, a walking, talking, screaming, squawking metaphor for What's Wrong With Young People Today.
— Julie Burchill
The secret is not to care what anyone thinks of you.
— 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.
— Julie Burchill
Only those who haven't got the wit to speak for themselves would ever want their clothes to do it for them.
— Julie Burchill
When did women whose looks are not their living start conducting themselves like the simpering inmates of an Ottoman empire seraglio?
— 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.
— Julie Burchill
One Christmas build-up tradition, however, has totally bypassed me - that of going up to town and 'doing a show.'
— Julie Burchill
It was Julie Burchill who decreed that, beyond a certain age, a man should not be seen in a leather jacket.
— Arthur Smith
What sort of sap doesn't know by now that picture-perfect beauty is all done with smoke and mirrors anyway?
— Julie Burchill
Lots of women love to accuse men of being immature when the fellow in question displays a reluctance to 'commit.'
— Julie Burchill
People - and I include myself - get fat because they choose pleasure over self-denial.
— Julie Burchill
