“There are so many young women who tip over into being a facsimile: the...” — Susie Orbach Quote

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

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.

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

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

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.

Some people are walking around with full use of their bodies and they're more paralyzed than I am.

I began to encounter real-life stories of dogs protecting their wounded or dying or dead handler... or dogs refusing to leave the bodies of the people they were bonded to, sitting in cemeteries for days or sometimes weeks. You find these stories endlessly.

We should realize in a vivid and revolutionary sense that we are not in our bodies but our bodies are in us.

I love studying asteroids because they are relatively simple, just rocks in space. They can be understood with physics and described with elegant equations. For the most part, they are serene celestial bodies.