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

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.

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.

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

it's a losing battle at this point, but so was the alamo

Death is softer by far than tyranny.

America stands for individual liberty, but that means an ordered liberty.

If you want to preserve your virginity, it's about not wanting to belong to the human species.

The ingenuity of the average worker is sufficient to outwit any system of controls devised by management.

You can buy [John McCain's] book, but in a week and a half, he'll have another.

The strong man is the man who can stand up for his rights and not hit back.

The world will break your heart ten times till Sunday,that's guaranteed

The reason I'm a Yankee is that George Steinbrenner out hustled everybody else.

Happen to things, don't let things happen to you