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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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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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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

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As with most liberal sexual ideas, what makes the world a better place for men invariably makes it a duller and more dangerous place for women. – Julie Burchill

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And I think women have come a very, very long way, but they have a long way to go. – Lara Flynn Boyle

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Women may not have it easy, but we are given a fairer chance to reach for the top. – Jessica Savitch

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Women

No doubt exists that all women are crazy its only a question of degree. – W. C. Fields

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Women

Most women are not as young as they are painted. – Max Beerbohm

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