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

Skinny is only one body type.

Mothers unconsciously allow more latitude to sons, and open encouragement, and with daughters they treat them as they would treat themselves.

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

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.

Today, 'fat' has become not a description of size but a moral category tainted with criticism and contempt.

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.