I think what's most interesting about me is the work that I do.

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.

For it is not needful, to use a common proverb, that one should drink up the ocean who wishes to learn that its water is salt.

fear of change is like standing under a hot shower and knowing the moment you'll turn it off you'll be freezing cold

Christmas is a story that has both religious and pagan origins, and to ignore its power is to ignore the power of myth - those symbols and legends that help us to ground our lives.

The applause was so loud and insistent that I had to respond with several encores. I was numb with happiness, when it was over, I knew that this alone must be my life and my world.

... even in houses commonly held to be 'booky' one finds, nine times out of ten, not a library but a book-dump.

It's a beautiful day, and I can't stop myself from smiling!

Digital is expensive, from the computers to the professional software to the technicians, but digital helps me to create more beautiful images in less time.

If you're not prepared to give some truly independent thought to what this world is all about, then what is the point of being alive?

I'm a hard worker. I get my hands dirty.

The farmer has to be an optimist or he wouldn't still be a farmer.