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 with fat bodies - less worthy, less capable and less employable.

There are so many young women who tip over into being a facsimile: they don't really inhabit their lives or their bodies.

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

Communism can't survive the captivating allure of capitalism.

My first career ambitions involved turning into a boy; I intended to be either a railway guard or a knight errant.

I'd date someone younger or older; age doesn't matter to me. Or looks, really - it's all about maturity.