Susie Orbach Quotes - Page 2

When I was growing up, one or two girls were beautiful, but it was not an aspiration, right?

Public intellectuals come from a range of areas and use their expertise to comment more widely than just their field. They want to make a contribution to public space, and they stick their necks out to do it.

Skinny is only one body type.

... within every form of oppression lies the seeds of liberation.

Celebrity culture is something that pains me.

The analyst's psyche operates as a kind of... something to hold on to while somebody's going through therapy, if they're deconstructing their own psyche, if that's cracking up in some way, or dissolving.

In general, the Western body has become a global brand.

I think it is one of the capacities of human beings, to create style.

There is no such thing as a neutral therapist.

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

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.

No one leaves a long-term relationship scot-free or without conflict.

I've always felt very sympathetic from the first days of writing about women that, whatever the woman, whether she is trying to be a woman in the conventional sense or breaking the boundaries, those struggles are quite difficult.

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.

I'm the sort of person who likes to undo everything.

If I were afraid of wrinkles, I'd probably be hiding in a cupboard, because I have a lot of them.

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.