Consumer society tantalises us. We then try within ourselves to control the needs that are being constantly stimulated.

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.

Never give anybody permission to disturb your peace. Always ignore negative comment.Dwell on positive thoughts and occupied your mind with songs of praise.

Don’t judge a bird by its feathers

Surround yourself with everything and everyone that will help you feel your best, think your best, do your best, and be your best.

Shooting gives me a good feeling. It is faster than baseball and you are out on one strike.

Why do we kill people who are killing people to show that killing people is wrong?

I know what makes me happy. I pick the clothes that make me happy - sometimes people like them, sometimes they don't. I try to listen to my own internal guide.

America has not dictated to other nations. We have freed other nations from dictators.

The discipline of the writer is to learn to be still and listen to what his subject has to tell him.

What blockheads are those wise persons, who think it necessary that a child should comprehend everything it reads.

I realized late in life that my twin passions are music and people.