English writer (1959- )
Suicide is much easier and more acceptable in Hollywood than growing old gracefully.
JULIE BURCHILL
Girls on Film
There isn't a word for homosexual I do like! Having said that, I would never describe myself as "heterosexual", "straight" or anything else. Especially not "bisexual" (it sounds like a sort of communal vehicle missing a mudguard). I like "spontaneous" as a sexual description.
JULIE BURCHILL
interview, The Guardian, May 12, 2009
I find it hard to follow a party line. I'm too much of a populist -- which is why I'm against hunting but pro hanging. I find it quite hard to find like-minded souls.
JULIE BURCHILL
interview, High Profiles
Youth, health, wealth and beauty are meant to be fuel, to be burned in pursuit of pleasure, and not fruit to be pickled in anticipation of some future famine.
JULIE BURCHILL
The Guardian Columns, 1998-2000
Prostitution reinforces all the old dumb clichés about women's sexuality; that they are not built to enjoy sex and are little more than walking masturbation aids, things to be DONE TO, things so sensually null and void that they have to be paid to indulge in fornication, that women can be had, bought, as often as not sold from one man to another. When the sex war is won prostitutes should be shot as collaborators for their terrible betrayal of all women.
JULIE BURCHILL
"Born Again Cows", Damaged Gods
Apart from the obvious repressive and misogynist offensiveness of the burkha -- and it insults men as well as women, implying as it does that they are slavering beasts who will turn into rapists with one glimpse of an ankle -- it strikes me as extremely disrespectful to the Creator. We are saying that the body He created is sinful and must be hidden away like a nasty little secret. God created women to look like women; he didn't create them to look like parrot cages with a nightshade chucked over it.
JULIE BURCHILL
interview, The Guardian, May 12, 2009
The freedom that women were supposed to have found in the Sixties largely boiled down to easy contraception and abortion; things to make life easier for men, in fact.
JULIE BURCHILL
Damaged Gods
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
Sex & Sensibility
Prostitution is the supreme triumph of capitalism.
JULIE BURCHILL
"Born Again Cows", Damaged Gods
I don't fall out with people easily but several female friends I have had to cut loose because they would press their unwanted sexual attentions on me when they were drunk, and, as I've said, I fancy women very rarely and when I do, they're in their 20s. It's so sucky being a feminist Hugh Hefner.
JULIE BURCHILL
interview, The Guardian, May 12, 2009
I friggin' hate that word! 'Vulnerable' -- it's what wimpy men have to believe all women are inside no matter how tough they seem, or else they'll wet their Y-fronts in fear!
JULIE BURCHILL
Sweet
OK, so she ran off with a boy young enough to be her waist measurement. But at least she had the decency to do the dirty quietly and not hang around long enough to conduct a masterclass on familial trauma courtesy of the local rag, without even bothering to change the names.
JULIE BURCHILL
Sugar Rush
I might ask the Lord to please help me not to be a certain way, but not to forgive me. Pointless.
JULIE BURCHILL
interview, High Profiles
I look at single people and they don't seem particularly happy as a species. My advice is marry often and live apart. Best of both worlds.
JULIE BURCHILL
interview, The Guardian, May 12, 2009
Trying to cling to what you had when you were young would be so tragic, horrible, and after a certain age ambition is horribly disfiguring to the character.
JULIE BURCHILL
"I'm Cleverer than Most Men", The Times, February 1999
Brighton is like Bristol-on-sea. It's for people who are happy with where they've got to in life and don't want to go any further.
JULIE BURCHILL
The Spectator, May 11, 2013
If people displease me too much, I just leave 'em to it. There's no point in trying to change people -- and there are a million people out there one could be equally good friends with. Generally I forgive very easily, and then one day I just switch off. It's best that way, or else you spend your life fretting.
JULIE BURCHILL
interview, High Profiles
It's so lovely that even in prison, men who aren't touchy-feely have to be stopped from beating up rapists -- not just child molesters, but rapists of grown women. It's a shame that educated middle-class leftwing men can't take feminism on board so effectively.
JULIE BURCHILL
interview, The Guardian, May 12, 2009
I express my faith by being extremely generous to others, particularly those in need -- not censorious of myself, which I see as a kind of useless, tight-fisted vanity.
JULIE BURCHILL
interview, High Profiles
Some people should be paid not to write another novel.
JULIE BURCHILL
"I'm Cleverer than Most Men", The Times, February 1999