Susie Orbach Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

“The insistence that the commercialisation of the body is a fit subject for political discussion and intervention is well overdue.”

“There are so many young women who tip over into being a facsimile: they don't really inhabit their lives or their bodies.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

“A wanted pregnancy as much as a dreaded pregnancy can play differently than all one's previous imaginings.”

“Dare to be as physically robust and varied as you always were.”

“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 think what's most interesting about me is the work that I do.”

“I'm a therapist and that fascinates people because they think I carry secrets.”