Public intellectuals come from a range of areas and use their expertise to comment more widely than just their field. They want to make a contribution to public space, and they stick their necks out to do it.

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

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.

We accept there's an emotional aspect to life. But we're not very developed in our ways of understanding it.

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.

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

Fat is a social disease, and fat is a feminist issue.