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
Lots of women love to accuse men of being immature when the fellow in question displays a reluctance to commit. – Julie Burchill
Women, more often than not, do things which arent remotely relaxing but are all about preening, which is just another sort of work. – 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