Quotes by Susie Orbach

About Susie Orbach:

Susie Orbach is a British psychotherapist, psychoanalyst, writer and social critic.
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Fat is a way of saying no to powerlessness and self-denial.

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There is no such thing as a neutral therapist.

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Celebrity culture is something that pains me.

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

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When I was growing up, one or two girls were beautiful, but it was not an aspiration, right?

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

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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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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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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.

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

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

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

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

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The analyst's psyche operates as a kind of... something to hold on to while somebody's going through therapy, if they're deconstructing their own psyche, if that's cracking up in some way, or dissolving.

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

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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.

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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, ...

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Author Bio

  • NameSusie Orbach
  • DescriptionBritish psychologist
  • BornNovember 6, 1946
  • CountryUnited Kingdom
  • ProfessionAuthor; Journalist