We accept there's an emotional aspect to life. But we're not very developed in our ways of understanding it.
From Susie Orbach
The insistence that the commercialisation of the body is a fit subject for political discussion and intervention is well overdue.
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.
When I was growing up, one or two girls were beautiful, but it was not an aspiration, right?
Fat people are so rarely included in visual culture that fat is perceived as a blot on the landscape of sleek and slim.
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.
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.
Mothers unconsciously allow more latitude to sons, and open encouragement, and with daughters they treat them as they would treat themselves.
There are so many young women who tip over into being a facsimile: they don't really inhabit their lives or their bodies.
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?
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