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.

Celebrity culture is something that pains me.

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.

Fat is a social disease, and fat is a feminist issue.

Knowledge is air to the wise.Wisdom is poison to a fool.

Life is denied by lack of attention whether it be to cleaning windows or trying to write a masterpiece.

The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase: if you pursue happiness you'll never find it.

Daesh members wear shoes. Does this mean everybody who wears shoes is Daesh?

Im afraid of needles, except acupuncture needles.

Energy doesn't lie. Keep sensing it, trusting it, letting it liberate you.

As a poet and writer, I deeply love and I deeply hate words. I love the infinite evidence and change and requirements and possibilities of language.

We are but whirlpools in a river of ever-flowing water. We are not stuff that abides, but patterns that perpetuate themselves. A pattern is a message, and may be transmitted as a message.

Love lives on hope, and dies when hope is dead; It is a flame which sinks for lack of fuel.

I'm a lost soul. We do wail.