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I don't have a spiritual bone in my body but what I am, is religious.

Julie Burchill

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Julie Burchill
Age: 65
Born: 1959
Born: July 3
Journalist
Novelist
Writer
Frenchay
Gloucestershire
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Fame is no sanctuary from the passing of youth... suicide is much easier and more acceptable in Hollywood than growing old gracefully.
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Only those who haven't got the wit to speak for themselves would ever want their clothes to do it for them.
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Whenever I am sent a new book on the lively arts, the first thing I do is look for myself in the index.
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I feel even less patience with transsexuals.
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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.
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Presley sounded like Jayne Mansfield looked - blowsy and loud and low.
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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, I wanted to make loads of money.
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As a kid, I grew to define what I didn't want my life to be like by sitting behind moaning women on the bus, hearing them bang on about their aches and pains, both real and imagined.
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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.
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I almost choke on my popcorn when I hear film stars, who walk on red carpets as much as the rest of us do on zebra crossings, criticising youngsters who crave fame.
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'Stress' was the catch-all every pamper-pedlar I spoke to used to explain why healthy women feel the need to be regularly patted, petted and preened into a state of babyish beatification.
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Monarchists frequently declare that without the royal family, Britain would be 'nothing.' What a woeful lack of love for one's country such statements express.
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My favourite spectator sport is watching people who should know better searching for something, and often claiming to find it, where it never could be. Women claiming to find feminism in Islam is a good one.
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A wedding is a funeral which masquerades as a feast. And the greater the pageantry, the deeper the savagery.
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Amsterdam has more than 150 canals and 1,250 bridges, but it never seems crowded, nor bent and bitter from fleecing the tourist.
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Show me a frigid woman and, nine times out of ten, I'll show you a little man.
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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.
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