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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 with and the most pleasurable to have and to hold.

— Julie Burchill to Julie Burchill in: Austin Imoru (2008)

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It has been said (by Shelley Winters) that a pretty face is a passport. But it's not - it's a visa, and it runs out fast.

Sex & sensibility (1992)

Whenever I am sent a new book on the lively arts, the first thing I do is look for myself in the index.

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.

Damaged Gods (1986)

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 pays a whole lot better than this type of compulsion, but it is no more heroic.

Sex & sensibility (1992)

Tears are sometimes an inappropriate response to death. When a life has been lived completely honestly, completely successfully, or just completely, the correct response to death's perfect punctuation mark is a smile.

to Burchill in: Mark Water (2000)

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We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men and women are created equal.

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