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"Can I just say here how much I hate the word 'pamper'? While pretending to celebrate and indulge women, it actually implies that their bodies are so revolting that even their 'me time' must be dedicated to turning them into living dolls if potential suitors are to be prevented from running screaming in horror."

Julie Burchill on Women

More quotes about Women

  • "A woman is like a tea bag - you can't tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water."

    Eleanor Roosevelt on Women

  • "I don't know who invented high heels, but all women owe him a lot."

    Marilyn Monroe on Women

  • "Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent."

    Friedrich Nietzsche on Women

  • "The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles."

    Ralph Waldo Emerson on Women

  • "As usual, there is a great woman behind every idiot."

    John Lennon on Women

More quotes by Julie Burchill

  • "I am firmly of the opinion that women who make a lot of effort to hang onto their looks in middle age (unless they are beauties, entertainers or prostitutes) are rather sad, as one should surely have something more substantial to recommend one by this time, such as kindness or cleverness."

  • "As a precocious teen I dreamed of being Graham Greene. Well, as it turned out, I never wrote a great novel, sadly, and I never converted to Catholicism, happily, but I did do one thing he did. That is, in middle age I moved to a seaside town and got into a right barney with the local powers-that-be."

  • "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."

  • "Surely being a Professional Beauty - let alone an ageing one - is one of the most insecure and doomed careers imaginable."

  • "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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