I wish we could treat our bodies as the place we live from, rather than regard it as a place to be worked on, as though it were a disagreeable old kitchen in need of renovation and update.

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

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

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.

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

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.

In my mum's day, you needed to be beautiful for a very short time to catch your man. It didn't start at six and go on until you're 75, right?