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.

Buddha means awareness, the awareness of body and mind that prevents evil from arising in either.

I love my kitchen. On the weekends, we have friends over, the kids are buzzing around, and we cook and talk.