... within every form of oppression lies the seeds of liberation.

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.

The working class had imposed upon them a sterile and authoritarian educational system which mirrored the ethos of the corporate workplace.

Friends don’t come ready-made or one-size-fits-all. True friends are always custom fit and one-of-a-kind…just for you.

Have a heart which does not trample down simplicity and humility.

I don't really know where my ideas come from. I start with a time and a place. That's what I need to get started, and an intellectual question.

When you're all in, you will know sweet vulnerability.

Don't create theology about God so that you can feel better about Him.

If I could be working every day, I would be.

I want to be a homer. I'm getting paid for something that I love to do. I would do it for nothing.

I've got a song on every album, two songs as a matter of fact on every album without Auto-Tune, and that's the song that nobody talks about. It's weird.

Hopeless and helpless doth Egeon wend, But to procrastinate his liveless end.