Quote by Julie Burchill
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Big women do themselves a disservice when they attempt to become the Righteous Fat (the Righteous Thin are bad enough, all that running around and sweating, somehow believing it means anything). – Julie Burchill

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Ive always thought of beauty therapy, alternative treatments and the like as the female equivalent of brothels – for essentially self-deceiving people who feel a bit hollow and have to pay to be touched. – Julie Burchill

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Beauty
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I have experienced jealousy, possessiveness, verbal abuse and violence from men, but I have also experienced jealousy, possessiveness, verbal abuse and violence from women, usually when I failed to respond to their advances. – Julie Burchill

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Jealousy
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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

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Society
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All women who kill or have sexual obsessions or who are prostitutes have trouble with their fathers. – Catherine Deneuve

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Women
[H]er figure might be described by a poet as just set in the luxurious mould of womanhood. – “Diary of a Surgeon,” in The Library of Fiction, or Family Story-Teller; consist

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Women

I believe women still face a glass ceiling that must be shattered. – Andrew Cuomo

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Women

Three things have been difficult to tame: the oceans, fools and women. We may soon be able to tame the oceans fools and women will take a little longer. – Spiro T. Agnew

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Women

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My biography of Frank Sinatra is not paean to his music but rather an illumination of the man behind the music, who once described himself as an 18-karat manic-depressive who lived a life of violent emotional contradictions with an over-acute capacity for sadness as well as happiness. – Kitty Kelley

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Everyone knows that by far the happiest and universally enjoyable age of man is the first. What is there about babies which makes us hug and kiss and fondle them, so that even an enemy would give them help at that age? – Desiderius Erasmus

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If I werent reasonably placid, I dont think I could cope with this sort of life. To be a diva, youve got to be absolutely like a horse. – Joan Sutherland

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