Susie Orbach

The parents' job is to be there for their kids, not the other way round. Troubles between parents need to be talked through with friends and not visited on the children.

Fat people are so rarely included in visual culture that fat is perceived as a blot on the landscape of sleek and slim.

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

Recently, I was in Bernalda, my dad's ancestral home town in Italy. He has just refurbished a palazzo and turned it into a hotel, so we had my sister's wedding there. It was beautiful.

I've always been very determined, ever since I was a little girl, to make my way.

The scene changes but the aspirations of men of good will persist.