Skinny is only one body type.

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.

You will be your best self when you take time to understand what you really need, feel, think and want.

Basically, I started singing when I started talking. Music has just been my saving grace my whole life.

I'm passing on a tradition of which I am part. There's a long line of poets who went before me, and I'm another one, and I'm hoping to pass that on to other younger, or newer, poets than myself.

The newspaper is a lecture. The Web is a conversation.

God help me now to preach the Word to all the dying around, and tell them how.

Other people do not owe me their availability.

Every day you have to abandon your past or accept it and then, if you cannot accept it, you become a sculptor.

My love of nationalism is that my country may become free, and if need be, the whole of the country die, so that the human race may live.

Comfort his family with a telegram, we regret to inform you we lost a man, but we gave him the highest medal of the land.

I am not in the roll of common men.