Susie O'neill Quotes

#1. 'Skinny' is only one body type.

Susie Orbach

#2. 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

#3. Imagine yourself in Harriet Tubman's shoes. Fighting to be freed from deplorable conditions. Placing one foot in front of the other, putting slavery behind you. If a petite, abused slave can rise up, fight for freedom, secure the freedom of others, and change her world, so can I. And so can you.

Susie Larson

#4. 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.

Susie Orbach

#5. And I know, too, that recognizing one's mistakes does not erase them.

Susie Morgenstern

#6. You can't love everyone. We're already lucky to love the ones we love.

Susie Morgenstern

#7. As I consider myself nothing nor nobody more than Peter Sellers in Being There or at my liveliest as Inspector Clousseau, it is difficult to make "Susie" sound interesting?

Susie Duncan Sexton

#8. 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

#9. 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.

Susie Orbach

#10. The higher up I hold it, the less painful the hot wax." ... "Try hanging off the ceiling and dropping it from there.

Barbara Elsborg

#11. ... The shocking thing about any stripper gathering, I discovered, was that you have never heard women talk so fast and so explicitly about money in all your life. They make the guys on the trading floor on Wall Street look like a bunch of pansies.

Susie Bright

#12. 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.

Susie Orbach

#13. To be an uncommon woman is to do what's unnatural. Like streams in the desert, the uncommon woman has the capacity to find refreshment and be a source of refreshment no matter where life finds her.

Susie Larson

#14. I thought of the analyst Winnicott's observation: 'It is a joy to be hidden but disaster not to be found'.

Susie Orbach

#15. We accept there's an emotional aspect to life. But we're not very developed in our ways of understanding it.

Susie Orbach

#16. 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

#17. Anger begins with madness and ends with regret

Susie Tate

#18. Let me live my final days whole.
Let my memory remain that I might know love's face.
Life don't unwrap me to be fed to scavengers.
I want to escape into light - not exist in darkness.

Susie Clevenger

#19. That's the way it is--you have a thought, a dream, an idea in your head . . . and you do nothing to make it happen. Then one day, boom, just like that, you get up and go.

Susie Morgenstern

#20. Many Americans who are not fastened at the temples to a Christian prayer book are offended by politicians who justify their decisions by piously quoting the Old Testament.

Susie Bright

#21. I love turning my daughter on to old movies.

Susie Bright

#22. I see the effects of sexual and gender liberation all around me, just like you do, but I don't have a sense of being in the majority.

Susie Bright

#23. We know that ever woman wants to be thin. Our images of womanhood are almost synonymous with thinness.

Susie Orbach

#24. I now know how your anger
came from skeletons
that rattled in your heart
and you couldn't escape them.

Susie Clevenger

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

Susie Orbach

#26. There is more criticism of puritanism, and more distance from Christian morality, than there has been before.

Susie Bright

#27. Susie: Maybe we're all making everything up as we go.

Martine Leavitt

#28. Hey Susie Derkins, is that your face, or is a 'possum stuck in your collar?

Bill Watterson

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

Susie Orbach

#30. Hey, you're not supposed to find our magnificent organs amusing.

Barbara Elsborg

#31. Now I have to have the biggest P.O. box in the entire post office to get all the manuscripts coming in.

Susie Bright

#32. When AIDS was at its most brutal, frightening, my-God-what-are-we-going-to-do era, that was when vampire stories and stories about blood and trust swept the literary world.

Susie Bright