When I was growing up, one or two girls were beautiful, but it was not an aspiration, right?

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.

The older you get, the better you have to look, the higher you have to kick, the harder you have to work.

The first piece of music that captured my imagination was probably Ray Charles Live At Newport.

A company attitude is rarely anybody's best.

You can have small moments of happiness in life. You certainly can’t expect years and years of it.

I do love you. I think you know that, but just in case...I love you.

The demand for equal rights in every vocation of life is just and fair; but, after all, the most vital right is the right to love and be loved.

I remember how often some of us walked out of the darkness of the Lower East Side and into the brilliant sunlight of Washington Square.

If you do not love Christ, let me tell you plainly what is the reason. You have no sense of debt to him.

America is a country of excess.

My dad told me that when I was born my cheeks were so fat the doctors didn't know which end to spank.