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

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

Many young girls are constantly consumed by controlling and managing their body image to the extent that they are much more involved in the production of the self than in living.

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

When they took TV to Fiji they found that after 3 years nearly 12 girls out of 100 were over the toilet bowls with bulimia because they felt inferior.

I thought of the analyst Winnicott's observation: 'It is a joy to be hidden but disaster not to be found'.

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