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

The terrorist attacks were a tragedy for the people who died or were injured, and for their families and friends. For the rest of us, they were a wak…

- 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…

- 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

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 pa…

- Julie Burchill

A wedding is a funeral which masquerades as a feast. And the greater the pageantry, the deeper the savagery.

- Julie Burchill

Tears are sometimes an inappropriate response to death. When a life has been lived completely honestly, completely successfully, or just completely, …

- Julie Burchill

A good part - and definitely the most fun part - of being a feminist is about frightening men.

- Julie Burchill

Depression is the most extreme form of vanity.

- Julie Burchill