Consumer society tantalises us. We then try within ourselves to control the needs that are being constantly stimulated.

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.

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

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.

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

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