"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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"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.“
-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.'"
-Julie Burchill
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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."
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"It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow."
-Robert H. Schuller
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"Do not abandon yourselves to despair. We are the Easter people and hallelujah is our song."
-Pope John Paul II
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"God had brought me to my knees and made me acknowledge my own nothingness, and out of that knowledge I had been reborn. I was no longer the centre of my life and therefore I could see God in everything."
-Bede Griffiths
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"The great gift of Easter is hope - Christian hope which makes us have that confidence in God, in his ultimate triumph, and in his goodness and love, which nothing can shake."
-Basil Hume
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"God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the world, 'I love you.'"
-Billy Graham
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"I loved raising my kids. I loved the process, the dirt of it, the tears of it, the frustration of it, Christmas, Easter, birthdays, growth charts, pediatrician appointments. I loved all of it."
-Jane Elliot
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