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

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.

A wanted pregnancy as much as a dreaded pregnancy can play differently than all one's previous imaginings.

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.

Many young girls are constantly consumed by controlling and managing their body image to the extent that they are much more involved in the production of the self than in living.

No one leaves a long-term relationship scot-free or without conflict.

There is no such thing as a neutral therapist.