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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Fat people are so rarely included in visual culture that fat is perceived as a blot on the landscape of sleek and slim. "

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

" I think what's most interesting about me is the work that I do. "

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

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

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

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Understanding

Emotional

" 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. "

" Mothers unconsciously allow more latitude to sons, and open encouragement, and with daughters they treat them as they would treat themselves. "

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Treat

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

" There is no such thing as a neutral therapist. "

" 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. "

" Celebrity culture is something that pains me. "

" There are so many young women who tip over into being a facsimile: they don't really inhabit their lives or their bodies. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

" Dare to be as physically robust and varied as you always were. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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