Susie Orbach
Psychologist
1946-11-06
Quotes by Susie Orbach
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Celebrity culture is something that pains me.
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Dare to be as physically robust and varied as you always were.
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Celebrity culture is something that pains me.
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Dare to be as physically robust and varied as you always were.
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I'd like to see much more understanding of emotional issues around hurt, abandonment, disappointment, longing, failure and shame, where they stem from and how they drive people and policies brought into public discourse.
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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.
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Today, 'fat' has become not a description of size but a moral category tainted with criticism and contempt.
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No one likes to feel helpless. We find it psychologically unbearable and inside ourselves we may try to make ourselves part author of our misfortune rather than simply the recipient of it.
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I'm the sort of person who likes to undo everything.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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There are so many young women who tip over into being a facsimile: they don't really inhabit their lives or their bodies.
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