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.

Skinny is only one body type.

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.

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.

I'm the sort of person who likes to undo everything.

Today, 'fat' has become not a description of size but a moral category tainted with criticism and contempt.