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"And then, I do love my shopping, but actually, lounging is the big thing"

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There is a sly self-revision baked into Delta Burke's line: it starts by nodding to a familiar, slightly stigmatized pleasure (shopping), then immediately swerves to a different, arguably more radical claim (lounging). The phrase "I do love my shopping" sounds like a preemptive confession, the kind a woman in the public eye learns to offer before someone else weaponizes it. Then comes the pivot: "but actually" signals a re-ranking of desires, as if she is catching herself performing a culturally approved version of femininity and deciding to tell the truth instead.

"Lounging is the big thing" lands as both punchline and manifesto. Shopping is active, visible, legible to others; it produces bags, receipts, proof of participation. Lounging is private, unproductive, and therefore politically charged in a culture that expects women to be either working, improving, caregiving, or at least consuming in ways that can be marketed back to them. Burke frames rest not as laziness but as preference, a chosen center of gravity.

Context matters: Burke came up in an era when actresses were routinely policed for body, taste, and "likability". The line reads like a quiet refusal of that surveillance. It's not anti-glamour; it's a boundary. She keeps the fun of shopping, but she crowns comfort and downtime as the real luxury, puncturing the idea that self-worth has to be earned through hustle or displayed through consumption.

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APA Style (7th ed.)
Burke, Delta. (n.d.). And then, I do love my shopping, but actually, lounging is the big thing. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/and-then-i-do-love-my-shopping-but-actually-47260/

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Burke, Delta. "And then, I do love my shopping, but actually, lounging is the big thing." FixQuotes. Accessed February 1, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/and-then-i-do-love-my-shopping-but-actually-47260/.

MLA Style (9th ed.)
"And then, I do love my shopping, but actually, lounging is the big thing." FixQuotes, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/and-then-i-do-love-my-shopping-but-actually-47260/. Accessed 1 Feb. 2026.

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Delta Burke (born July 30, 1956) is a Actress from USA.

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