Best Quotes by Julie Burchill (Top 8)

  1. 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.
  2. It has been said that a pretty face is a passport. But it's not, it's a visa, and it runs out fast.
  3. 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.
  4. A good part - and definitely the most fun part - of being a feminist is about frightening men.
  5. Now the whole dizzying and delirious range of sexual possibilities has been boiled down to that one big, boring, bulimic word. RELATIONSHIP.
  6. Writing is more than anything a compulsion, like some people wash their hands thirty times a day for fear of awful consequences if they do not. It pays a whole lot better than this type of compulsion, but it is no more heroic.
  7. 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.
  8. Show me a frigid woman and, nine times out of ten, I'll show you a little man.