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.

I didn't want my genome to be sequenced by any of the companies that were out there doing the partial sequences just from the point of view of commercialisation.

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

I've learned that even the word 'jubilee' used in connection with the Reformation can give rise to discussions.