Susie Orbach quotes

Boys, young men, men of all ages are being captivated by the new visual grammar which pushes men to pout and posture. (Susie Orbach)
No one leaves a long-term relationship scot-free or without conflict.
Susie Orbach
The insistence that the commercialisation of the body is a fit subject for political discussion and intervention is well overdue.
Susie Orbach
No one likes to feel helpless. We find it psychologically unbearable and inside ourselves we may try to make ourselves part author of our misfortune rather than simply the recipient of it.
Susie Orbach
Not that it was Twiggy's fault, but the ubiquity of her image created a sense in young women that to be stylish meant to be skinny, flat-chested with an ingenue face and straight hair.
Susie Orbach
Mothers unconsciously allow more latitude to sons, and open encouragement, and with daughters they treat them as they would treat themselves.
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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
In general, the Western body has become a global brand.
Susie Orbach
Celebrity culture is something that pains me.
Susie Orbach
There is no such thing as a neutral therapist.
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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)
From a child's point of view, there is rarely a great time for parents to separate, even if there has been a lot of commotion and fighting.
Susie Orbach
Fat people are so rarely included in visual culture that fat is perceived as a blot on the landscape of sleek and slim.
Susie Orbach
I think it is one of the capacities of human beings, to create style.
Susie Orbach
Consumer society tantalises us. We then try within ourselves to control the needs that are being constantly stimulated.
Susie Orbach
Fat is a way of saying no to powerlessness and self-denial.
Susie Orbach
In my mum's day, you needed to be beautiful for a very short time to catch your man. It didn't start at six and go on until you're 75, right?
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I'm a therapist and that fascinates people because they think I carry secrets.
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I'm the sort of person who likes to undo everything.
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If I were afraid of wrinkles, I'd probably be hiding in a cupboard, because I have a lot of them.
Susie Orbach
Bodies are becoming our personal mission to tame, extend and perfect. (Susie Orbach)
When I was growing up, one or two girls were beautiful, but it was not an aspiration, right?
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Today, 'fat' has become not a description of size but a moral category tainted with criticism and contempt.
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.
Susie Orbach
Beauty has been democratised. No longer the preserve of movie stars and models but available to all. But while the invitation to beauty is welcomed, it has become not so much an option as an imperative.
Susie Orbach