I'm the sort of person who likes to undo everything.

We accept there's an emotional aspect to life. But we're not very developed in our ways of understanding it.

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.

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

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

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

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.