Fat is a social disease, and fat is a feminist issue.

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

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.

In general, the Western body has become a global brand.

We accept there's an emotional aspect to life. But we're not very developed in our ways of understanding it.

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

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.