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Julie Burchill (born 3 July 1959) is an English journalist, writer and broadcaster. Beginning as a staff writer at the New Musical Express at the age of 17, she has since contributed to newspapers such as The Sunday Times and The Guardian. Describing herself as a "militant feminist", she has been involved in legal action resulting from her work on several occasions. Burchill is also an author and novelist: her 2004 novel Sugar Rush was adapted for television.

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Families, generally, suck. And I say that as someone who, like my husband, had parents who proved the proverbial exception to the rule.

Exception To The Rule, Families, Generally, Husband, Like, Parent

The truth of the matter is, beauty is a specific thing, rare and fleeting. Some of us have it in our teens, 20s and 30s and then lose it; most of us have it not at all. And that's perfectly okay. But lying to yourself that you have it when you don't seems to me simple-minded at best and psychotic at worst.

Fleeting, Lying, Psychotic, Rare, Simple, Worst

The Feminist Me says that a woman's right to her own body should be inviolate at all times, free from fear of peeping paps.

Body, Feminist, Free, Right, Should

Covering up, so far as I can see, is often the accompaniment to far more truly shameful behaviour than stripping off.

Behaviour, Covering, Stripping

Rachel Cusk's books are like pop-up volumes for grown-ups, the prose springing out of the page to bop you neatly between the eyes with its insights.

Book, Books, Bop, Eye, Page, Pages

Having 'best friends' is - at least for me - as outdated and small-minded a concept as the idea of 'Sunday best clothes. '

Clothes, Concept, Friends, Ideas, Sunday

It may be a cliché, but it's true - the build-up to Christmas is so much more pleasurable than the actual day itself.

Actual, Christmas, Cliche, Day, May

I know that Brighton is famously a mixture of the seedy and the elegant, but in the summer of 2001 seediness swamped elegance hands down.

Hands, Mixtures, Seediness, Seedy, Summer

Contrasting British servicemen and women with the appeasers, it is hard not to laugh. Are these two sides even the same species, let alone the same nationality? On one hand the selflessness and internationalism of the soldiers; on the other the Whites-First isolationism of the protesters. Excuse me, who are the idealists here?

Hands, Idealists, Laugh, Laughing, Two Sides, Women

What men don't want, in fact what anyone who's any sort of thrill-seeking, intelligent adult doesn't want, is some crushing bore describing their emotions in real time every waking hour.

Crush, Intelligent, Men, Real

A cynic should never marry an idealist. For the cynic, marriage represents the welcome end of romantic life, with all its agony and ecstasy. But for the idealist, it is only the beginning.

Agony, Beginning, Cynicism, Idealist, Welcome

I feel I'm trying to get this really crap car going, and it just keeps stalling on me. And then other times I feel like my life's a train thundering toward me, and I'm in a car stuck on the crossroads and can't get out. Isn't it great being young!

Car, Crossroads, Like, Stuck, Trying

As a child, I wanted only two things - to be left alone to read my library books, and to get away from my provincial hometown and go to London to be a writer. And I always knew that when I got there, I wanted to make loads of money.

Book, Child, Children, Left, Two, Writer

To believe that one, or even three, mates can supply all the things one needs from one's friends is as stupid as believing married couples must do everything together.

Believe, Couple, Friends, Stupid, Three, Together

It has been said that a pretty face is a passport. But it's not, it's a visa, and it runs out fast.

Beauty, Cute Funny, Face, Running, Said, Visa

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

Art, Book, Index, Looks, Thing, Whenever

I feel even less patience with transsexuals.

Feels, Patience, Transsexuals

The latest twist on the pampering concept is spa parties, where a group of friends take over an entire spa.

Entire, Group, Pampering, Party, Take, Twists

My favourite spectator sport is watching people who should know better searching for something, and often claiming to find it, where it never could be. Women claiming to find feminism in Islam is a good one.

Claiming, Feminism, Islam, People, Sports, Watching

Being a monarchist, and fawning over those 'above' you, you must naturally despise those 'below' or on the same socioeconomic level as yourself, because that is how hierarchy worship works.

Levels, Hierarchy, Worship, Socioeconomic, Level

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