'Skinny' is only one body type.

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

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

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

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.

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.

I thought of the analyst Winnicott’s observation: ‘It is a joy to be hidden but disaster not to be found’.

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

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.