164 Quotes by 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, I wanted to make loads of money.

But just think what a boring, bread-and-milk world this would be without the boastful.

What sort of sap doesn't know by now that picture-perfect beauty is all done with smoke and mirrors anyway?

I know that Brighton is famously a mixture of the seedy and the elegant, but in the summer of 2001 seediness swamped elegance hands down.

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 people (except those with proven medical conditions) who pretend that it is generally otherwise.

Women, more often than not, do things which aren't remotely relaxing but are all about preening, which is just another sort of work.

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 respond to their advances.

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.

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.