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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.
Julie Burchill
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Julie Burchill
Age: 65
Born: 1959
Born: July 3
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Frenchay
Gloucestershire
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Islam
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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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I don't really care what people tell children - when you believe in Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny and the Tooth Fairy, one more fib won't hurt. But I am infuriated by the growing notion, posited in some touchy-feely quarters, that all women are, or can be, beautiful.
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I don't have a spiritual bone in my body but what I am, is religious.
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If you want sex, have an affair. If you want a relationship, buy a dog.
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Graham Greene famously said that all writers need a chip of ice in their heart Cusk can come across as the most beautiful ice palace of stalactites and stalagmites, and some people find her company, albeit by proxy, about as inviting as a long weekend in a walk-in frigidaire.
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I jest, of course premature ejaculation isn't a laughing matter for anyone, except for your friends when you tell them about it on the phone the next morning. My first marriage ended because the main event was invariably over before my husband got his socks off.
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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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Here in Barcelona, it's the architects who built the buildings that made the city iconic who are the objects of admiration - not a bunch of half-witted monarchs.
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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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Covering up, so far as I can see, is often the accompaniment to far more truly shameful behaviour than stripping off.
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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.
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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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It's received wisdom that the English are uniquely child-unfriendly.
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The allegedly 'classy' magazines often seem to be in an endless, undeclared competition to see who can climb furthest up the fundament of Gwyneth Paltrow or Jennifer Lopez.
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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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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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Prostitution is the supreme triumph of capitalism. When the sex war is won prostitutes should be shot as collaborators for their terrible betrayal of all women, for the moral tarring and feathering they give indigenous women who have had the bad luck to live in what they make their humping ground.
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