Our idea of a healthy body is so destabilised that insecure people have come to bolster their own bodies by deeming others - those with fat bodies - less worthy, less capable and less employable.

Fat is a way of saying no to powerlessness and self-denial.

The insistence that the commercialisation of the body is a fit subject for political discussion and intervention is well overdue.

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

The parents' job is to be there for their kids, not the other way round. Troubles between parents need to be talked through with friends and not visited on the children.

No one leaves a long-term relationship scot-free or without conflict.

There are so many young women who tip over into being a facsimile: they don't really inhabit their lives or their bodies.