63 Quotes by Susie Orbach

We accept there's an emotional aspect to life. But we're not very developed in our ways of understanding it.

Fat is a way of saying no to powerlessness and self-denial.

The insistence that the commercialisation of the body is a fit subject for political discussion and intervention is well overdue.

Fat people are so rarely included in visual culture that fat is perceived as a blot on the landscape of sleek and slim.

Mothers unconsciously allow more latitude to sons, and open encouragement, and with daughters they treat them as they would treat themselves.

There is no such thing as a neutral therapist.

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

Beauty has been democratised. No longer the preserve of movie stars and models but available to all. But while the invitation to beauty is welcomed, it has become not so much an option as an imperative.

Being able to provoke a different point of view to the standard current ideological or political perspective as played out in conventional newspaper or radio reportage is what a public intellectual does. But it's not merely about being oppositional, because that's too negative.