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.

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

Consumer society tantalises us. We then try within ourselves to control the needs that are being constantly stimulated.

History is a facsimile of events held together by finally biographical information.

Sometimes in someone's gestures you can notice how a parent is somehow inhabiting that person without there being any awareness of that. Sometimes you can look at your hand and see your father.

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