Blakes Hotel in South Kensington was a particular favourite of mine during what I affectionately think of as my Restless Years. Julie Burchill Read Quote
And call me a pig, but isn’t it brilliantly refreshing how early the Dutch eat dinner? When they’re still laying out the cutlery in achingly hip Barcelona, they’re hanging the Closed sign on the restaurant doors of old Amsterdam. Julie Burchill Read Quote
I didn’t cry when I left free-booting, smash-and-grab papers that would have appeared to be far more natural homes for me and, at the risk of being vulgar, paid far better for my services. Julie Burchill Read Quote
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 Read Quote
It’s very hard to imagine the phrase ‘consumer society’ used so cheerfully, and interpreted so enthusiastically, in England. Julie Burchill Read Quote
I’ll declare my own interest right here at the start and admit that, like the vast majority of people, I find youthful looks appealing. Julie Burchill Read Quote
Monarchists frequently declare that without the royal family, Britain would be ‘nothing.’ What a woeful lack of love for one’s country such statements express. Julie Burchill Read Quote
Being a monarchist, and fawning over those ‘above’ you, you must naturally despise those ‘below’ or on the same socioeconomic level as yourself, because that is how hierarchy worship works. Julie Burchill Read Quote
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 Read Quote
Rachel Cusk’s books are like pop-up volumes for grown-ups, the prose springing out of the page to bop you neatly between the eyes with its insights. Julie Burchill Read Quote
