I've always felt very sympathetic from the first days of writing about women that, whatever the woman, whether she is trying to be a woman in the conventional sense or breaking the boundaries, those struggles are quite difficult.

I've always felt very sympathetic from the first days of writing about women that, whatever the woman, whether she is trying to be a woman in the conventional sense or breaking the boundaries, those struggles are quite difficult.

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

The insistence that the commercialisation of the body is a fit subject for political discussion and intervention is well overdue.

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

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

There is no such thing as a neutral therapist.