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.

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.

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.

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

Belief and faith are great, but very few people have been led astray by thinking for themselves.

Life is filled with endless opportunities.

All the characters in this book are fictional, but they are as real to me as the members of my own family. I had to tell their story because they could not.

Ben Schwartzwalder was a decent guy, but he was from another era. He was like a Marine, with a real army attitude. He thought there was only one way to play football, and that was the rough way.

Purpose should determine approach. At the end of the day, it's what we do, not what we purposed to do, that defines our lives and reputations.

...one Greek city state had a fundamental law: anyone proposing revisions to the constitution did so with a noose around his neck. If his proposal lost he was instantly hanged.

Want and boredom are indeed the twin poles of human life.

[Sigmund ] Freud assumes that every dream represents the satisfaction of adesire and in the last analysis, of a sexual desire that has its roots in infancy.

I'm pretty comfortable with my body. I'm imperfect. The imperfections are there. People are going to see them, but I take the view you only live once.

There are so many people in film and television that get between a performer and the audience, and that's frustrating.