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• Emotional Literacy means being able to recognise what you are feeling, so that it doesn't interfere with thinking. It becomes another dimension…
• Mothers unconsciously allow more latitude to sons, and open encouragement, and with daughters they treat them as they would treat themselves.
• Many young girls are constantly consumed by controlling and managing their body image to the extent that they are much more involved…
• Fat is a way of saying no to powerlessness and self-denial.
• I thought of the analyst Winnicott's observation: 'It is a joy to be hidden but disaster not to be found'.
• Celebrity culture is something that pains me.
• Fat is a social disease, and fat is a feminist issue.
• We know that ever woman wants to be thin. Our images of womanhood are almost synonymous with thinness.
• A wanted pregnancy as much as a dreaded pregnancy can play differently than all one's previous imaginings.
• Bodies are becoming our personal mission to tame, extend and perfect.
• Boys, young men, men of all ages are being captivated by the new visual grammar which pushes men to pout and posture.
• Consumer society tantalises us. We then try within ourselves to control the needs that are being constantly stimulated.

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