Emotional Literacy means being able to recognise what you are feeling, so that it doesn't interfere with thinking. It becomes another dimension to draw upon when making decisions or encountering situations. Emotional expression by contrast can mean being driven by emotions, so that it isn't possible to think. These two things are often confused, because we are still uncomfortable with the idea of the validity of feelings.

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.

From a child's point of view, there is rarely a great time for parents to separate, even if there has been a lot of commotion and fighting.

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

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

Skinny is only one body type.

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