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… — Susie Orbach Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Emotional Literacy means being able to recognise what you are feeling, so that it doesn't interfere with thinking. It becomes another dimension to draw… — Susie Orbach Copy Share Image
Many young girls are constantly consumed by controlling and managing their body image to the extent that they are much more involved in the… — Susie Orbach Copy Share Image
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… — Susie Orbach Copy Share Image
Being able to provoke a different point of view to the standard current ideological or political perspective as played out in conventional newspaper or… — Susie Orbach Copy Share Image
We accept there's an emotional aspect to life. But we're not very developed in our ways of understanding it. — Susie Orbach Copy Share Image
I think it is one of the capacities of human beings, to create style. — Susie Orbach Copy Share Image
Bodies are becoming our personal mission to tame, extend and perfect. — Susie Orbach Copy Share Image
“The truth is, we don't have an easy language for emotional life. That's why we have writers.” — Susie Orbach Copy Share Image
Our idea of a healthy body is so destabilised that insecure people have come to bolster their own bodies by deeming others - those… — Susie Orbach Copy Share Image
The insistence that the commercialisation of the body is a fit subject for political discussion and intervention is well overdue. — Susie Orbach Copy Share Image
No one likes to feel helpless. We find it psychologically unbearable and inside ourselves we may try to make ourselves part author of our… — Susie Orbach Copy Share Image
