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

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.

If you continually diet, you are putting your body in a quasi-famine situation. It slows your metabolism down and breaks the thermostat. Diets don't work. They don't help you understand why you're eating more than your body wanted in the first place.

There is no such thing as a neutral therapist.

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