Quotes from Susie Orbach

Celebrity culture is something that pains me.

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.

Boys, young men, men of all ages are being captivated by the new visual grammar which pushes men to pout and posture.

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.

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

Consumer society tantalises us. We then try within ourselves to control the needs that are being constantly stimulated.

Today, 'fat' has become not a description of size but a moral category tainted with criticism and contempt.

Bodies are becoming our personal mission to tame, extend and perfect.

Beauty has been democratised. No longer the preserve of movie stars and models but available to all. But while the invitation to beauty is welcomed, it has become not so much an option as an imperative.

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

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

A wanted pregnancy as much as a dreaded pregnancy can play differently than all one's previous imaginings.

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.

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

There is no such thing as a neutral therapist.

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

The analyst's psyche operates as a kind of... something to hold on to while somebody's going through therapy, if they're deconstructing their own psyche, if that's cracking up in some way, or dissolving.

In my mum's day, you needed to be beautiful for a very short time to catch your man. It didn't start at six and go on until you're 75, right?

From a child's point of view, there is rarely a great time for parents to separate, even if there has been a lot of commotion and fighting.

I think it is one of the capacities of human beings, to create style.

Our idea of a healthy body is so destabilised that insecure people have come to bolster their own bodies by deeming others - those with fat bodies - less worthy, less capable and less employable.

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

'Skinny' is only one body type.