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.

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.

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

I love and commit to nourishing my inner child.

Relationships take skill, not perfection or luck!

Our portion is not constantly looking back at our fears and failures

To leave is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.

I felt the tears streak down my cheeks but I wasn't crying.

Even today with the public's growing interest in food and diet issues, politicians rarely include food as part of their political platforms.

The ends and means are a seamless web.

His kiss was like white lightning, a flash that spread, and spread again, and stayed.

It was hard to get guys to notice me, period, because I was so skinny and all my friends were curvy. Plus, I used to be very nervous in front of guys.

Never let the mud puddle get lost in the poetry because, in many ways, the mud puddle is the poetry.