“For a young woman today, developing femininity successfully requires meeting three basic demands. The first of these is that she must defer to others, the second that she must anticipate and meet the needs of others, and the third, that… — 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 upon when making decisions or encountering situations. Emotional expression by contrast can mean being driven by emotions, so that it isn't possible to think. These two things are often confused, because we are still uncomfortable with… — Susie Orbach Copy Share
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
