Not that it was Twiggy's fault, but the ubiquity of her image created a sense in young women that to be stylish meant to be skinny, flat-chested with an ingenue face and straight hair.

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

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.

I'm a therapist and that fascinates people because they think I carry secrets.

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

Consumer society tantalises us. We then try within ourselves to control the needs that are being constantly stimulated.

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