Top 99 Quotes by Julie Burchill

About Julie Burchill

These are some quotes by British author Julie Burchill Journalist, who was born on July 3, 1959.

There are exciting, intelligent, fat people - and exciting, intelligent, thin people.

There are exciting, intelligent, fat people - and exciting, intelligent, thin people.

Julie Burchill

And call me a pig, but isn't it brilliantly refreshing how early the Dutch eat dinner? When they're still laying out the cutlery in achingly hip Barcelona, they're hanging the Closed sign on the restaurant doors of old Amsterdam.

Julie Burchill

I didn't cry when I left free-booting, smash-and-grab papers that would have appeared to be far more natural homes for me and, at the risk of being vulgar, paid far better for my services.

I didn't cry when I left free-booting, smash-and-grab papers that would have appeared to be far more natural homes for me and, at the risk of being vulgar, paid far better for my services.

Julie Burchill

Blakes Hotel in South Kensington was a particular favourite of mine during what I affectionately think of as my Restless Years.

Blakes Hotel in South Kensington was a particular favourite of mine during what I affectionately think of as my Restless Years.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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).

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

Can I just say here how much I hate the word 'pamper'? While pretending to celebrate and indulge women, it actually implies that their bodies are so revolting that even their 'me time' must be dedicated to turning them into living dolls if potential suitors are to be prevented from running screaming in horror.

Julie Burchill

One of the few ways in which I feel I've actually matured is that as I've grown older I do find the concept of 'men' mystifying, whereas when I was a feisty young thing I was forever saying 'The most fun part of being a feminist is frightening men!'

Julie Burchill

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