I wish we could treat our bodies as the place we live from, rather than regard it as a place to be worked on, as though it were a disagreeable old kitchen in need of renovation and update. Susie Orbach bodydisagreeablekitchen Change image and share on social
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. Susie Orbach childfriendjob Change image and share on social
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. Susie Orbach bodybolstercapable Change image and share on social
I think what's most interesting about me is the work that I do. Susie Orbach interestwork Change image and share on social
There are so many young women who tip over into being a facsimile: they don't really inhabit their lives or their bodies. Susie Orbach bodyfacsimileinhabit Change image and share on social
Today, 'fat' has become not a description of size but a moral category tainted with criticism and contempt. Susie Orbach categorycontemptcriticism Change image and share on social
Being able to provoke a different point of view to the standard current ideological or political perspective as played out in conventional newspaper or radio reportage is what a public intellectual does. But it's not merely about being oppositional, because that's too negative. Susie Orbach conventionalcurrentideological share on social
