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

Fat people are so rarely included in visual culture that fat is perceived as a blot on the landscape of sleek and slim.

I'm a therapist and that fascinates people because they think I carry secrets.

Being able to provoke a different point of view to the standard current ideological or political perspective as played out in conventional newspaper or radio reportage is what a public intellectual does. But it's not merely about being oppositional, because that's too negative.

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

Consumer society tantalises us. We then try within ourselves to control the needs that are being constantly stimulated.

I'm the sort of person who likes to undo everything.