Julie Burchill Quotes

To generalize on women is dangerous. To specialize on them is infinitely worse.

In the end, I do think it's insulting to men and women to insist that they fit a certain profile. I never understood that.

Both men and women are really vast and boundless and yet in many films we're told that they're not. We're told they can only be one thing - like handsome and charming and that's it. Nothing more.

You should never be put into a mold based on your gender.

When you write, you are not either sex. But when you're read you are definitely gendered.

What these books have conclusively proven is that the diffence between men and women is exactly 38 pages.

There aren't good roles for women: the female parts aren't developed: the women are serving the men.

In a lot of TV shows out there, the women are the weak ones, and the men are the strong ones.

Over the years, the most ponderous problem for women has been that men think that men and women are very different. Another of our massive problems is that women also think that men and women are very different.

I'd like to get to the point where I can be just as mediocre as a man.

Women are so complicated, it's unbelievable.

I think the differences between men and women, it's kind of hard to define what those are and the challenges, what they are. I think there are challenging things for everybody.

Well, I don't think of myself as a feminist at all. As soon as we start labeling and categorizing ourselves and others, that's going to shut down the world.

I would gladly admit women are superior to men if only they would stop trying to be the same as us.

I'd say I am partial to women.

People put stock in someone being in a 'girl group,' but we don't say that a band is a 'man group.'

I think the fallacy is to think that Women's Liberation meant that men and women would become interchangeable. That has not happened, and most men and women would not want it to happen.

You think that being a girl is degrading, but secretly, you'd love to know what it's like, wouldn't you?

When my friends and I would act out movies as kids, we'd play the guys' roles, since they had the most interesting things to do. Decades later, I can hardly believe my sons and daughter are seeing many of the same limited choices in current films.

I found in my experiences that it's not that men are consciously discriminating against promoting women, but I do believe as people we have self-images about what's good.

I've come to learn that there is a real difference between men and women. It's genetic.

There's still prejudice and that resistance regarding women, not only on female football but in various activities. Men think that women are a bit fragile to perform some types of activities or don't have the ability and aren't strong enough.

I'm not telling women to be like men. I'm telling us to evaluate what men and women do in the workforce and at home without the gender bias.

I grew up in a time when many people believed that men and women should not always be treated equally.

Because if you say men and women are the same and if male behaviour is the norm, and women are always expected to act like men, we will never be as good at being men as men are.