The muscular, athletic type is not representative of the human race, who are varied in their physique.

Buy less. Choose well. Make it last. Quality, not quantity. Everybody's buying far too many clothes.

I'm frugal. I'm not a very acquisitive woman. I never waste food. If you prepare your own food, you engage with the world, it tastes alive. It tastes good.

Economists treat economics as if it is a pure science divorced from the facts of life. The result of this false accountancy is a willful confusion under cover of which industry wreaks its havoc scot-free and ignores the environmental cost.

Wear a towel instead of a coat, it’s very chic. Or your husband’s boxer shorts with a belt, or something from your grandmother. It’s all about do-it-yourself at the moment.

If you're too big to fit into fashion, then you just have to do your own fashion.

The fight is no longer between the classes or between rich and poor but between the idiots and the eco-conscious.