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.
A wanted pregnancy as much as a dreaded pregnancy can play differently than all one's previous imaginings. - Susie Orbach
A wanted pregnancy as much as a dreaded pregnancy can play differently than all one's previous imaginings.
- Susie Orbach
Fat is a social disease, and fat is a feminist issue. - Susie Orbach
Fat is a social disease, and fat is a feminist issue.
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 … - Susie Orbach
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 …
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 … - 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 …
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 - … - 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 - …
Today, 'fat' has become not a description of size but a moral category tainted with criticism and contempt. - Susie Orbach
Today, 'fat' has become not a description of size but a moral category tainted with criticism and contempt.
Fat is a way of saying no to powerlessness and self-denial. - Susie Orbach
Fat is a way of saying no to powerlessness and self-denial.
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
Fat people are so rarely included in visual culture that fat is perceived as a blot on the landscape of sleek and slim.
There is no such thing as a neutral therapist. - Susie Orbach
There is no such thing as a neutral therapist.
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