Julie Burchill

"Writing is more than anything a compulsion, like some people wash their hands thirty times a day for fear of awful consequences if they do not. It pays a whole lot better than this type of compulsion,…"

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

"A good part — and definitely the most fun part — of being a feminist is about frightening men. American and Australian feminists have always known this, and absorbed it cheerfully into their act; one …"

"Guardian columns by Julie Burchill"

"The Julie Burchill Random Recycler"

"Unofficial Julie Burchill website"

"Cherie Blair can call herself a feminist all she likes, but any feminist worth her salt would have made a point of having a termination - on the NHS, naturally - when she got knocked up the last time.…"

"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."