Susie Orbach Body Quotations

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

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.

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

Skinny' is only one body type.

In general, the Western body has become a global brand.