Susie Orbach
Susie Orbach
Susie Orbachis a British psychotherapist, psychoanalyst, writer and social critic. Her first book, Fat is a Feminist Issue, analysed the psychology of dieting and over-eating in women, and she has campaigned against media pressure on girls to feel dissatisfied with their physical appearance. She is married to the author Jeanette Winterson...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionPsychologist
Susie Orbach quotes about
lying oppression form
... within every form of oppression lies the seeds of liberation.
space use want
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.
beautiful men goes-on
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?
hair ubiquity faces
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.
jobs children kids
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.
perfect becoming body
Bodies are becoming our personal mission to tame, extend and perfect.
trying needs consumers
Consumer society tantalises us. We then try within ourselves to control the needs that are being constantly stimulated.
people culture landscape
Fat people are so rarely included in visual culture that fat is perceived as a blot on the landscape of sleek and slim.
food want thinness
We know that ever woman wants to be thin. Our images of womanhood are almost synonymous with thinness.
issues feminist disease
Fat is a social disease, and fat is a feminist issue.
pain culture celebrity-culture
Celebrity culture is something that pains me.
daughter mother encouragement
Mothers unconsciously allow more latitude to sons, and open encouragement, and with daughters they treat them as they would treat themselves.
self denial way
Fat is a way of saying no to powerlessness and self-denial.
children fighting views
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.