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

No one leaves a long-term relationship scot-free or without conflict.

I'm a therapist and that fascinates people because they think I carry secrets.

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

I wish we could treat our bodies as the place we live from, rather than regard it as a place to be worked on, as though it were a disagreeable old kitchen in need of renovation and update.

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.

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.