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

Boys, young men, men of all ages are being captivated by the new visual grammar which pushes men to pout and posture.

Fat people are so rarely included in visual culture that fat is perceived as a blot on the landscape of sleek and slim.

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.

The analyst's psyche operates as a kind of... something to hold on to while somebody's going through therapy, if they're deconstructing their own psyche, if that's cracking up in some way, or dissolving.

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

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