Culture Quote by Susie Orbach

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

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

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

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

We accept there's an emotional aspect to life. But we're not very developed in our ways of understanding it.

— Susie Orbach

I think it is one of the capacities of human beings, to create style.

— Susie Orbach

Bodies are becoming our personal mission to tame, extend and perfect.

— Susie Orbach

“The truth is, we don't have an easy language for emotional life. That's why we have writers.”

— 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…

— Susie Orbach

The insistence that the commercialisation of the body is a fit subject for political discussion and intervention is well overdue.

— Susie Orbach

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

— 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…

— Susie Orbach