The industry was a long time learning they had gotten into bed with an activist and artist, not someone seeking fame and fortune

'Body dissatisfaction, including a desire for a thinner body, is present in many girls by 6 years of age'

There is that moment when your beloved niece or nephew turns around and offers to buy you a drink at the bar, and you realise the child you still dote on has actually come of age.

There was no mysterious Vanishing Triangle in Ireland, no serial killer on the loose, because in many cases most signs pointed to stalking, abuse and intimate partner violence

'What role are the village, or the State, playing, or not playing, when it comes to maternal mental health?'

This is also a story of Ireland — how a girl could end up giving birth alone in a grotto, and what systems and strata of social control led to these circumstances?

"We do not value care work. People talk about the 'system being broken', but the system was never fixed in the first place. The career-care conundrum exists because the workplace is designed for you to work like you do not have a family, and raise a family like you don't work"

We could all sit back and watch in shock and horror at the global sexual objectification and commodification of this child 40-odd years ago, were so much of the sentiment that drove her stardom not still around in our air and culture today

'It's some trajectory, to go from no homeless families in 2012, to where we now find ourselves in 2023'

'Social media, where this extreme rhetoric so often begins and festers, is not a place that exactly incubates a sense of shared humanity'