There is no such thing as a neutral therapist.

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.

Trust me, Wilbur. People are very gullible. They'll believe anything they see in print.

The free mind, unafraid of labor, presses on to attain the good.

No man was born empty.

The only constant in our marriage is the edge of the cliff we're hanging on to, killing time until we tire ourselves out and give in to our inevitable collapse.

There has to be something we can do to undo whatever it is we have done.

If nominated I will not accept if elected I will not serve.

There were few things worse than being ordinary, in Evie’s opinion. Ordinary was for suckers.

I'm fortunate enough with the surfing to be very much at home at the water - my pulse and heart rate are slower in the water than they are on land.

Enemies in War, in Peace Friends.

God made the country, and man made the town.