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

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'.

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.

Fat is a social disease, and fat is a feminist issue.

He had no idea of my misery. It would have surprised him to think that I was a human creature with a soul.

Everywhere he touches is fire. My whole body is burning up, the two of us becoming twin points of the same bright white flame.

The discovery of a new dish confers more happiness on humanity, than the discovery of a new star.

Don't fear tomorrow, till today's done with you.

A philosopher may deplore the eternal discords of the human race, but he will confess, that the desire of spoil is a more rational provocation than the vanity of conquest.

Quite honestly, ... there's never been stunt driving before or after as spectacular or elaborate. That's all real, no (computer trickery).

Children's finger-painting came under the arts, but movies didn't.

Do not say before hand what you are going to do; for if you fail, you will be laughed at.

I feel thankful to God, first and foremost, allowing me to enjoy this 'smell the roses' kind of thing.

Preaching doom and gloom has been beneficial to the political class. They use it to gain more power and control.