"As with most liberal sexual ideas, what makes the world a better place for men invariably makes it a duller and more dangerous place for women."
-Julie Burchill
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"Most women are wise to the fact that lots of men love a cat-fight, and thus go out of their way not to give them one.“
-Julie Burchill
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"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."
-Julie Burchill
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"There's something brave and touching about game girls of all ages keeping themselves smart in hard times - one thinks of those wonderful women during World War II drawing stocking seams in eyebrow pencil up the back of legs stained with gravy browning because nylons were so hard to get hold of."
-Julie Burchill
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"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."
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"One Christmas build-up tradition, however, has totally bypassed me - that of going up to town and 'doing a show.'"
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"It may be a cliche, but it's true - the build-up to Christmas is so much more pleasurable than the actual day itself."
-Julie Burchill
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"All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances and one man in his time plays many parts, his acts being seven ages."
-William Shakespeare
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"Wherever men and women are persecuted because of their race, religion, or political views, that place must - at that moment - become the center of the universe."
-Elie Wiesel
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"Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea."
-Robert A. Heinlein
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"A study in the Washington Post says that women have better verbal skills than men. I just want to say to the authors of that study: 'Duh.'"
-Conan O'Brien
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"Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship."
-Oscar Wilde
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"Women speak because they wish to speak, whereas a man speaks only when driven to speak by something outside himself like, for instance, he can't find any clean socks."
-Jean Kerr
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