What I find most upsetting about this new all-consuming beauty culture is that the obsession with good looks, and how you can supposedly attain them, is almost entirely female-driven. – Julie Burchill
Being a monarchist – saying that one small group is born more worthy of respect than another – is just as warped and strange as being a racist. – Julie Burchill
Its very hard to imagine the phrase consumer society used so cheerfully, and interpreted so enthusiastically, in England. – 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. – Julie Burchill