Susie Orbach Quotes

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

Play, Wanted, Pregnancy

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.
Susie Orbach

Beauty, Become, Stars

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.
Susie Orbach

Political, Different, Negative

Bodies are becoming our personal mission to tame, extend and perfect.
Susie Orbach

Perfect, Personal, Becoming

Boys, young men, men of all ages are being captivated by the new visual grammar which pushes men to pout and posture.
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Men, Young, Grammar

Celebrity culture is something that pains me.
Susie Orbach

Culture, Celebrity, Pains

Consumer society tantalises us. We then try within ourselves to control the needs that are being constantly stimulated.
Susie Orbach

Society, Control, Try

Dare to be as physically robust and varied as you always were.
Susie Orbach

Dare, Physically, Robust

Fat is a way of saying no to powerlessness and self-denial.
Susie Orbach

Fat people are so rarely included in visual culture that fat is perceived as a blot on the landscape of sleek and slim.
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Fat, Culture, Landscape

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.
Susie Orbach

Time, Great, Parents

I think it is one of the capacities of human beings, to create style.
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Human, Create, Style

I think what's most interesting about me is the work that I do.
Susie Orbach

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.
Susie Orbach

Live, Wish, Old

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.
Susie Orbach

Failure, Hurt, Emotional

I'm a therapist and that fascinates people because they think I carry secrets.
Susie Orbach

Secrets, Carry, Therapist

I'm the sort of person who likes to undo everything.
Susie Orbach

Person, Everything, Likes

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.
Susie Orbach

Women, Woman, Writing

If I were afraid of wrinkles, I'd probably be hiding in a cupboard, because I have a lot of them.
Susie Orbach

Afraid, Hiding, Wrinkles

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.
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Work, Diet, Help

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

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?
Susie Orbach

Time, Beautiful, Short

Mothers unconsciously allow more latitude to sons, and open encouragement, and with daughters they treat them as they would treat themselves.
Susie Orbach

Treat, Themselves, Mothers

No one leaves a long-term relationship scot-free or without conflict.
Susie Orbach

Conflict, Leaves

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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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Psychologist

Born: 1946

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