In general, the Western body has become a global brand.

No one likes to feel helpless. We find it psychologically unbearable and inside ourselves we may try to make ourselves part author of our misfortune rather than simply the recipient of it.

In general, the Western body has become a global brand.

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.

Fat is a way of saying no to powerlessness and self-denial.

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.