Boys, young men, men of all ages are being captivated by the new visual grammar which pushes men to pout and posture.

Celebrity culture is something that pains me.

I wish we could treat our bodies as the place we live from, rather than regard it as a place to be worked on, as though it were a disagreeable old kitchen in need of renovation and update.

Many young girls are constantly consumed by controlling and managing their body image to the extent that they are much more involved in the production of the self than in living.

Today, 'fat' has become not a description of size but a moral category tainted with criticism and contempt.

A wanted pregnancy as much as a dreaded pregnancy can play differently than all one's previous imaginings.

I thought of the analyst Winnicott's observation: 'It is a joy to be hidden but disaster not to be found'.

Fat people are so rarely included in visual culture that fat is perceived as a blot on the landscape of sleek and slim.

No one likes to feel helpless. We find it psychologically unbearable and inside ourselves we may try to make ourselves part author of our misfortune rather than simply the recipient of it.

Fat is a way of saying no to powerlessness and self-denial.

When they took TV to Fiji they found that after 3 years nearly 12 girls out of 100 were over the toilet bowls with bulimia because they felt inferior.

Success teaches us nothing only failure teaches.

The key to happiness is......to hide the damn key in a place that only you can access.

We all wanted babies - but did any of us want children?

I'm attracted to any type of endeavor that gives me the chance to express what's going on inside me.

For me, beauty is a physical sensation, something we feel with our whole body. It is not the result of judgement. We do not arrive at it by way of rules. We either feel beauty or we don't.

I play a recurring role for a character named Doctor Imo. I assist the villain and show up from time to time.

You can define how strong a democracy is by how its government treats ... the child of the state.

A wise judge may let mercy temper justice but may not let mercy undo it.

Pleasure is the least consequential... engagement and meaning are much more important.

What is needed is, in the end, simply this: solitude, great inner solitude.