Susie Orbach Quotes

‘I’d like to see much more understanding of emotional issues around hurt, abandonment, disappointment, longing, failure and shame, where they stem from and how they drive people and policies brought into public discourse.’ – Susie Orbach

‘Fat is a way of saying no to powerlessness and self-denial.’ – Susie Orbach

‘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.’ – Susie Orbach

‘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

‘There is no such thing as a neutral therapist.’ – Susie Orbach

‘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?’ – Susie Orbach

‘I’m a therapist and that fascinates people because they think I carry secrets.’ – Susie Orbach

‘Celebrity culture is something that pains me.’ – Susie Orbach

‘I’m the sort of person who likes to undo everything.’ – Susie Orbach

‘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