Bodies are becoming our personal mission to tame, extend and perfect.

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.

A novelist is a person who lives in other people's skins.

The world is sitting on a gold mine but knows it not.

Loneliness is not a result of physical isolation

Ours is a country built more on people than on territory. The Jews will come from everywhere: from France, from Russia, from America, from Yemen... Their faith is their passport.

Create the space and a bigger life happens

Someone created the box score, and he should be shot.

I feel an almost overwhelming interest in the methods of daylight abduction employed by the modern youth.

Ive seen it all, done it all, known it all.

... finally democracy is catching up with the old, hierarchical, father-dominated family: the family is being democratized.

Live in such a way that if someone should speak badly of you, no one would believe it.