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
beautiful girl growing-up
When I was growing up, one or two girls were beautiful, but it was not an aspiration, right?
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?
varied
Dare to be as physically robust and varied as you always were.
life
Paradoxically, her lot in life is to be perpetually noticed.
work
I think what's most interesting about me is the work that I do.
insecure ideas people
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.
inspirational girl self
Many young girls are constantly consumed by controlling and managing their body image to the extent that they are much more involved in the production of the self than in living.
body skinny body-types
Skinny' is only one body type.
political body fit
The insistence that the commercialisation of the body is a fit subject for political discussion and intervention is well overdue.
therapists
There is no such thing as a neutral therapist.
stars movie-star models
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.
views perspective political
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.
struggle writing trying
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.
body down-and firsts
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.