Julie Burchill Quotes

It is very difficult for girls. They're told to look one way, but to act another way.

You—the outside world—will be told that it is our “culture” and “religion” to do X, Y, and Z to women. Understand that whoever deemed it as such was never a woman.

Woman is a vulgar animal from whom man has created an excessively beautiful ideal.

There are some strong female performers out there. But the industry's pre-occupation with the packaging of how a woman looks has gone completely the other way, back to almost the 60s, early 70s.

I think there are a lot of rules for women. We have a lot of expectations and a lot of rules for women. So we're expected to march in a straight line, and when we don't, all hell breaks loose.

One of the reasons I don't see eye to eye with Women's Lib is that women have it all on a plate if only they knew it. They don't have to be pretty either.

A man is free to go up as high as he can reach up to; but I, with all my style and pep, can't get a man my equal because a girl is always judged by her mother.

I don't understand why there needs to be a love interest to make women go see a film. I think society sort of makes us feel that way - that if you don't have a guy, you're worthless.

Men are just jealous because they can't wear makeup.

I am emboldened by my looks to say things Republican men wouldn't.

If I have a look around at the moment I feel great relief because finally others are entering the limelight. Men like Robert Pattinson must now play the Adonis. For me it was always a restraint, a restriction.

Most of the women in film are there to be beautiful to the man.

I think any girl who comes to Hollywood with sex symbol or bombshell hanging over her has a rough road.

Men are very tough, very critical of me. I think they expect you to basically just be a picture. They don't want to hear you speak.

Western women have been controlled by ideals and stereotypes as much as by material constraints.

Speaking as somebody with three sisters and a very largely female Muslim family, there is not a single woman I know in my family or in their friends who would have accepted the wearing of a veil.

We know in our society, women are valued for their sexual desirability and not necessarily for what they have to say.

I don't think men realize that when a woman walks out every single day, there's an unconscious way we cater to making some man comfortable. That's our experience.

I think that idea of 'because I'm sexy, I'm a feminist' is kind of immature. But as long as women think being sexy is what makes them beautiful and powerful... then it will continue.

We live in a culture that does not encourage women to be epic heroes of their own Big Stories but the mothers and lovers and wives and mistresses and muses and personal assistants, the femme fatales and fantasies and manic pixie dream girls, in someone else's Big Story, and this someone else is usually a dude.

Some women are forced by men to look a certain way to be accepted by the general public, and I find that terrible.

Women are socialized to be very nice and put up with a lot of things.

Women are allowed to exist in this very narrow lane, but as soon as you step out of that lane, people want to stone you.

While men pretend not to judge women for the way they look, we go to great lengths to pretend we don't care, either.

There are the aesthetic pressures for a woman to be pretty and sexy, but not sexual or have desires beyond winning a guy's affections.