Susie Orbach Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“There is no such thing as a neutral therapist.”

“We accept there's an emotional aspect to life. But we're not very developed in our ways of understanding it.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

“If you continually diet, you are putting your body in a quasi-famine situation. It slows your metabolism down and breaks the thermostat. Diets don't work. They don't help you understand why you're eating more than your body wanted in the first place.”

“Bodies are becoming our personal mission to tame, extend and perfect.”

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

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

“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?”