Mothers unconsciously allow more latitude to sons, and open encouragement, and with daughters they treat them as they would treat themselves. Susie Orbach Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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. Susie Orbach Read Quote
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 Read Quote
Consumer society tantalises us. We then try within ourselves to control the needs that are being constantly stimulated. Susie Orbach Read Quote
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 rather than simply the recipient of it. Susie Orbach Read Quote
