Top 25 Susie Orbach Quotes

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

In general, the Western body has become a global brand.
Susie Orbach
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.
Susie Orbach
Boys, young men, men of all ages are being captivated by the new visual grammar which pushes men to pout and posture.
Susie Orbach
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.
Susie Orbach
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.
Susie Orbach
Celebrity culture is something that pains me.
Susie Orbach
Bodies are becoming our personal mission to tame, extend and perfect.
Susie Orbach
There is no such thing as a neutral therapist.
Susie Orbach
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.
Susie Orbach
I’m the sort of person who likes to undo everything.
Susie Orbach
There are so many young women who tip over into being a facsimile: they don’t really inhabit their lives or their bodies.
Susie Orbach
Fat is a way of saying no to powerlessness and self-denial.
Susie Orbach
I’m a therapist and that fascinates people because they think I carry secrets.
Susie Orbach
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.
Susie Orbach
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.
Susie Orbach
I think what’s most interesting about me is the work that I do.
Susie Orbach
We accept there’s an emotional aspect to life. But we’re not very developed in our ways of understanding it.
Susie Orbach
No one leaves a long-term relationship scot-free or without conflict.
Susie Orbach
‘Skinny’ is only one body type.
Susie Orbach
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.
Susie Orbach
Consumer society tantalises us. We then try within ourselves to control the needs that are being constantly stimulated.
Susie Orbach
Fat people are so rarely included in visual culture that fat is perceived as a blot on the landscape of sleek and slim.
Susie Orbach
Today, ‘fat’ has become not a description of size but a moral category tainted with criticism and contempt.
Susie Orbach
A wanted pregnancy as much as a dreaded pregnancy can play differently than all one’s previous imaginings.
Susie Orbach
If I were afraid of wrinkles, I’d probably be hiding in a cupboard, because I have a lot of them.
Susie Orbach