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.

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

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.

Beauty has been democratised. No longer the preserve of movie stars and models but available to all. But while the invitation to beauty is welcomed, it has become not so much an option as an imperative.

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

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

There are so many young women who tip over into being a facsimile: they don't really inhabit their lives or their bodies.