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

- 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 …

- Susie Orbach

Fat is a social disease, and fat is a feminist issue.

- 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 …

- 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 - …

- 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

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

- Susie Orbach

There is no such thing as a neutral therapist.

- Susie Orbach