Zitat des Tages von Susie Orbach:
The insistence that the commercialisation of the body is a fit subject for political discussion and intervention is well overdue.
Mothers unconsciously allow more latitude to sons, and open encouragement, and with daughters they treat them as they would treat themselves.
Consumer society tantalises us. We then try within ourselves to control the needs that are being constantly stimulated.
The analyst's psyche operates as a kind of... something to hold on to while somebody's going through therapy, if they're deconstructing their own psyche, if that's cracking up in some way, or dissolving.
Our idea of a healthy body is so destabilised that insecure people have come to bolster their own bodies by deeming others - those with fat bodies - less worthy, less capable and less employable.
Bodies are becoming our personal mission to tame, extend and perfect.
In general, the Western body has become a global brand.
Not that it was Twiggy's fault, but the ubiquity of her image created a sense in young women that to be stylish meant to be skinny, flat-chested with an ingenue face and straight hair.
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.
I've always felt very sympathetic from the first days of writing about women that, whatever the woman, whether she is trying to be a woman in the conventional sense or breaking the boundaries, those struggles are quite difficult.
I think it is one of the capacities of human beings, to create style.
I think what's most interesting about me is the work that I do.
Today, 'fat' has become not a description of size but a moral category tainted with criticism and contempt.
There is no such thing as a neutral therapist.
Dare to be as physically robust and varied as you always were.
Fat is a way of saying no to powerlessness and self-denial.
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.
I'm the sort of person who likes to undo everything.
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 leaves a long-term relationship scot-free or without conflict.
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.
In my mum's day, you needed to be beautiful for a very short time to catch your man. It didn't start at six and go on until you're 75, right?
Celebrity culture is something that pains me.