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" A wanted pregnancy as much as a dreaded pregnancy can play differently than all one's previous imaginings. "
Differently
Much
Pregnancy
" 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. "
Beauty
Much
Become
" Being able to provoke a different point of view to the standard current ideological or political perspective as played out in conventional newspaper or radio reportage is what a public intellectual does. But it's not merely about being oppositional, because that's too negative. "
Perspective
Political
View
" Bodies are becoming our personal mission to tame, extend and perfect. "
Personal
Perfect
Becoming
" Boys, young men, men of all ages are being captivated by the new visual grammar which pushes men to pout and posture. "
Visual
Men
Grammar
" Celebrity culture is something that pains me. "
Pains
Something
Celebrity
" Consumer society tantalises us. We then try within ourselves to control the needs that are being constantly stimulated. "
Control
Needs
Within
" Dare to be as physically robust and varied as you always were. "
Dare
Physically
You
" Fat is a way of saying no to powerlessness and self-denial. "
Powerlessness
Saying
Way
" Fat people are so rarely included in visual culture that fat is perceived as a blot on the landscape of sleek and slim. "
Landscape
People
Culture
" 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. "
Time
Parents
Child
" I'd like to see much more understanding of emotional issues around hurt, abandonment, disappointment, longing, failure and shame, where they stem from and how they drive people and policies brought into public discourse. "
Disappointment
People
Failure
" If I were afraid of wrinkles, I'd probably be hiding in a cupboard, because I have a lot of them. "
Wrinkles
Lot
Hiding
" If you continually diet, you are putting your body in a quasi-famine situation. It slows your metabolism down and breaks the thermostat. Diets don't work. They don't help you understand why you're eating more than your body wanted in the first place. "
Work
Place
Help
" I'm a therapist and that fascinates people because they think I carry secrets. "
Carry
Because
People
" I'm the sort of person who likes to undo everything. "
Undo
Who
Everything
" In general, the Western body has become a global brand. "
Body
General
Global
" 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? "
Day
Time
Start
" I think it is one of the capacities of human beings, to create style. "
Create
Human
I Think
" I think what's most interesting about me is the work that I do. "
Interesting
Think
Work
" 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. "
She
Woman
Writing
" 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. "
Place
Treat
Wish
" Mothers unconsciously allow more latitude to sons, and open encouragement, and with daughters they treat them as they would treat themselves. "
More
Allow
Treat
" No one leaves a long-term relationship scot-free or without conflict. "
Conflict
Without
Relationship
" 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. "
Try
Feel
Find
" Not that it was Twiggy's fault, but the ubiquity of her image created a sense in young women that to be stylish meant to be skinny, flat-chested with an ingenue face and straight hair. "
Meant To Be
Stylish
Women
" 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. "
Fat
Healthy
Others
" 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. "
More
Comment
Contribution
" 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. "
Own
Going
Kind
" The insistence that the commercialisation of the body is a fit subject for political discussion and intervention is well overdue. "
Political
Body
Discussion
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