If I were afraid of wrinkles, I'd probably be hiding in a cupboard, because I have a lot of them.

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.

If you continually diet, you are putting your body in a quasi-famine situation. It slows your metabolism down and breaks the thermostat. Diets don't work. They don't help you understand why you're eating more than your body wanted in the first place.

The parents' job is to be there for their kids, not the other way round. Troubles between parents need to be talked through with friends and not visited on the children.

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

Many young girls are constantly consumed by controlling and managing their body image to the extent that they are much more involved in the production of the self than in living.

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