"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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"These women whose antics we smirk at good-naturedly in the pap-traps put themselves out there at least partly on their beauty they are in showbiz, and showing what they've got is part of their business as much as it is for male show-ponies from the Chippendales to George Clooney.“
-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."
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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."
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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."
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