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

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.

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.

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

When I was growing up, one or two girls were beautiful, but it was not an aspiration, right?