Susie Orbach Quotes

United Kingdom, Psychologist
November 6, 1946

Susie Orbach is 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.

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.

Susie Orbach
- Fat
- Slim
- Blot

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
- Place
- Worked
- Bodies
Consumer society tantalises us. We then try within ourselves to control the needs that are being constantly stimulated.

Susie Orbach
- Society
- Control
- Needs
Boys, young men, men of all ages are being captivated by the new visual grammar which pushes men to pout and posture.

Susie Orbach
- Grammar
- Ages
- Posture
We accept there's an emotional aspect to life. But we're not very developed in our ways of understanding it.

Susie Orbach
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.

Susie Orbach
- Body
- Living
- Girls
Bodies are becoming our personal mission to tame, extend and perfect.

Susie Orbach
- Perfect
- Mission
- Bodies

Today, 'fat' has become not a description of size but a moral category tainted with criticism and contempt.

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

Susie Orbach