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.

We know that ever woman wants to be thin. Our images of womanhood are almost synonymous with thinness.

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

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.

Bodies are becoming our personal mission to tame, extend and perfect.

... within every form of oppression lies the seeds of liberation.

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.