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