If I were afraid of wrinkles, I'd probably be hiding in a cupboard, because I have a lot of them.

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.

You can't have living without dying. So you can't call it living, what we got. We just are, we just be, like rocks beside the road.

Love truly makes the world turn, as it has been said. What people forget is that the turning of the world brings darkness as well as the light.

She didn't look at me and I didn't look at her. Some questions are so direct the only way to ask them is sideways.

True contentment is a thing as active as agriculture. It is the power of getting out of any situation all that there is in it. It is arduous and it is rare.

Certainly, for me, and it's gone this way on every project I've worked on, the "writing" never ends until you're done with the movie.

I think my favorite sound is the sound of someone not playing the bongos.

The soule needs few things, the body many.

In public administration good sense would seem to require that public expectation be kept at the lowest possible level in order to minimize eventual disappointment.

It is true that we are interested in scale but there are very sound reasons for this.

Experiments that crash atoms together could start a chain reaction that erodes everything on Earth.