Quote by Julie Burchill
As I get older I think, contrary to modern assumption but in line

As I get older I think, contrary to modern assumption but in line with the old Lerner and Lowe song, that it would actually benefit both them and society if – to quote Professor Higgins – a woman could be more like a man. – Julie Burchill

Other quotes by Julie Burchill

A good part – and definitely the most fun part – of being a feminist is about frightening men. – Julie Burchill

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Men
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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. – Julie Burchill

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Age
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When did women whose looks are not their living start conducting themselves like the simpering inmates of an Ottoman empire seraglio? – Julie Burchill

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Women
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Society
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Society honors its living conformists and its dead troublemakers. – Mignon McLaughlin

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Society

Society needs people who can manage projects in addition to handling individual tasks. – Marilyn vos Savant

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Society

The problem with society is that happiness and intelligence are rarely found in the same person. I guess thats why they say ignorance is bliss. – Anonymous

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Society

Congress acknowledged that societys accumulated myths and fears about disability and disease are as handicapping as are the physical limitations that flow from actual impairment. – William J. Brennan, Jr.

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Society

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People go into politics because they want the affirmation, and they want the applause. – Andrew Cuomo

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Politics

Women can go on marrying and pretending that their boyfriends and husbands are Mr. Darcy or some RomCom dream man. But wheres that going to get em? Besides divorce court? – Dan Savage

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Women

People dont always realize that my parents shared a sense of intellectual curiosity and a love of reading and of history. – Caroline Kennedy

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History

The richness of the human journey is here. Listen. Pass it on. So that there will not pass from our future the enchantment that begins with the honored words, Once upon a time, long ago and far away, in a deep forest, there lived a child – much like you. – Anon.

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Journeys