What sort of sap doesn't know by now that picture-perfect beauty is all done with smoke and mirrors anyway?
Julie BurchillThe terrorist attacks were a tragedy for the people who died or were injured, and for their families and friends. For the rest of us, they were a wake-up call as to what type of lunatics we are dealing with. And sleepwalking our way back into ill-sorted, dewy-eyed people personal politics is the last thing we need to set us up for the fight ahead. Come on you liberals, don't give me the morbid pleasure of saying, 'I told you so' again.
Julie BurchillSurely being a Professional Beauty - let alone an ageing one - is one of the most insecure and doomed careers imaginable.
Julie BurchillThe 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.
Julie Burchill