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

I thought of the analyst Winnicott's observation: 'It is a joy to be hidden but disaster not to be found'.

I'd like to see much more understanding of emotional issues around hurt, abandonment, disappointment, longing, failure and shame, where they stem from and how they drive people and policies brought into public discourse.

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

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

I think it is one of the capacities of human beings, to create style.

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.