In general, the Western body has become a global brand.

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.

Any book which inspires us to lead a better life is a good book.

Dare to travel on your defined path.

So if diva means giving your best, then yes, I guess I am a diva.

Cinema is a world of imagination.

Books make up no small part of human happiness.

Often we find our own destiny on the same roads that we have been avoiding.

I am reading Jonson's verses to the memory of Shakespeare; an insolent, sparing, and invidious panegyric.

The madder I get, the faster I go.

He used to be fairly indecisive, but now he's not so certain.

The mortalist enemy unto knowledge, and that which hath done the greatest execution unto truth, has been a preemptory adhesion unto authority.