From a child's point of view, there is rarely a great time for parents to separate, even if there has been a lot of commotion and fighting.

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've always felt very sympathetic from the first days of writing about women that, whatever the woman, whether she is trying to be a woman in the conventional sense or breaking the boundaries, those struggles are quite difficult.

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.

If I were afraid of wrinkles, I'd probably be hiding in a cupboard, because I have a lot of them.

When they took TV to Fiji they found that after 3 years nearly 12 girls out of 100 were over the toilet bowls with bulimia because they felt inferior.