“ One Christmas build-up tradition, however, has totally bypassed me - that of going up to town and 'doing a show.' Julie Burchill
“ Mind you, I've always been a very off-message type of fat broad; one who gladly admits she reached the size she is now solely through lack of discipline and love of pleasure, and who rather despises p… Julie Burchill
“ I have experienced jealousy, possessiveness, verbal abuse and violence from men, but I have also experienced jealousy, possessiveness, verbal abuse and violence from women, usually when I failed to re… Julie Burchill
“ I've never been nostalgic, personally or politically - if the past was so great, how come it's history? 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
“ Surely being a Professional Beauty - let alone an ageing one - is one of the most insecure and doomed careers imaginable. Julie Burchill
“ No matter how old and glorious the models, sad indeed is the woman who sees fashion as a means of self-expression rather than an agent of social control. Julie Burchill
“ A good part - and definitely the most fun part - of being a feminist is about frightening men. Julie Burchill
“ I am firmly of the opinion that women who make a lot of effort to hang onto their looks in middle age (unless they are beauties, entertainers or prostitutes) are rather sad, as one should surely have… Julie Burchill
“ There's something brave and touching about game girls of all ages keeping themselves smart in hard times - one thinks of those wonderful women during World War II drawing stocking seams in eyebrow pen… Julie Burchill
“ 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… Julie Burchill
“ My second husband believed I had such a fickle attitude to friendship that each Friday he would update the list of my 'Top Ten' friends in the manner of a Top Of The Pops chart countdown. Julie Burchill
“ As a precocious teen I dreamed of being Graham Greene. Well, as it turned out, I never wrote a great novel, sadly, and I never converted to Catholicism, happily, but I did do one thing he did. That is… Julie Burchill
“ Big women do themselves a disservice when they attempt to become the Righteous Fat (the Righteous Thin are bad enough, all that running around and sweating, somehow believing it means anything). 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
“ Mind you, I've always been a very off-message type of fat broad one who gladly admits she reached the size she is now solely through lack of discipline and love of pleasure, and who rather despises pe… Julie Burchill
“ From paying off friends' tax bills to rescuing stray dogs and stuffing £20 notes into the hands of homeless people, I can't get rid of my money fast enough. Julie Burchill
“ As a child, I wanted only two things - to be left alone to read my library books, and to get away from my provincial hometown and go to London to be a writer. And I always knew that when I got there,… Julie Burchill
