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The 'g' is silent—the only thing about her that is.
Of Camille Paglia

Julie Burchill
Show me a frigid woman and, nine times out of ten, I'll show you a little man.

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Gluttony and idleness are two of life's great joys, but they are not honourable.

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Transsexualism is, basically, just another, more drastic twist on the male menopause

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The only kind of socialist to be is a Stalinist, and the only kind of woman to be is a Bitch.

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Whenever I am sent a new book on the lively arts, the first thing I do is look for myself in the index.

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A wedding is a funeral which masquerades as a feast. And the greater the pageantry, the deeper the savagery.

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It has been said (by Shelley Winters) that a pretty face is a passport. But it's not - it's a visa, and it runs out fast.

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Fame is no sanctuary from the passing of youth. Suicide is much easier and more acceptable in Hollywood than growing old gracefully.

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I know that Brighton is famously a mixture of the seedy and the elegant, but in the summer of 2001 seediness swamped elegance hands down.

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Now the whole dizzying and delirious range of sexual possibilities has been boiled down to that one big, boring, bulimic word. RELATIONSHIP.

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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.

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A woman who looks like a girl and thinks like a man is the best sort, the most enjoyable to be with and the most pleasurable to have and to hold.

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I almost choke on my popcorn when I hear film stars, who walk on red carpets as much as the rest of us do on zebra crossings, criticising youngsters who crave fame.

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The freedom that women were supposed to have found in the Sixties largely boiled down to easy contraception and abortion; things to make life easier for men, in fact.

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It shouldn't come as any surprise that those who choose acting as a profession are phonies who live in a fantasy world. What is surprising is how many of them are blissfully unaware of it.

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A cynic should never marry an idealist. For the cynic, marriage represents the welcome end of romantic life, with all its agony and ecstasy. But for the idealist, it is only the beginning.

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