Eating Disorder quotes
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Eating disorders are like a gun that's formed by genetics, loaded by a culture and family ideals, and triggered by unbearable distress.
-- Aimee Liu -
Eating disorders, body dysmorphia and a general dissatisfaction with one's life and body seems to ail too many young people.
-- Carre Otis -
Part of treatment for drugs and alcohol is you abstain from these, but with eating disorders you can't abstain from food so the treatment is longer than drugs and alcohol.
-- Carre Otis -
If I like myself at this weight, then this is what I'm going to be. I don't have an eating disorder.
-- Courteney Cox -
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The only kind of dignity which is genuine is that which is not diminished by the indifference of others.
-- Dag Hammarskjold -
Eating disorders are serious mental illnesses, not lifestyle choices.
-- Demi Lovato -
During the investigation evidence of the vulnerability of women in the modelling profession was startling and models are at high risk of eating disorders.
-- Denise Kingsmill, Baroness Kingsmill -
Extreme picky eaters may have what's called Selective Eating Disorder. People with this experience physical and psychological discomfort over certain tastes, smells, textures.
-- Emily Yoffe -
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Our credulity is greatest concerning the things we know least about. And since we know least about ourselves, we are ready to believe all that is said about us. Hence the mysterious power of both flattery and calumny.
-- Eric Hoffer -
I was like 'No!' I've never had body issues, I've never had an eating disorder. I've never had to go on a diet and that's because of Weight Watchers.
-- Ginnifer Goodwin -
Red flag of the eating disorder: the muffin. Keep your eye on the ladies with the muffins...and sometimes I'll just eat the muffin top.
-- Janeane Garofalo -
I don't believe you have to have eating disorders and mental illness to screw up.
-- Kirstie Alley -
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Their [those with eating disorders'] task is to rescue themselves from a drive that is destroying them. Food embodies the false values that their own bodies refuse to assimilate, by which I mean that their bodies become edemic, bloated, allergic, or resort to vomiting the poison out. The unconscious body, and certainly the conscious body, will not tolerate the negative mother.
-- Marion Woodman -
We turn skeletons into goddesses and look to them as if they might teach us how not to need.
-- Marya Hornbacher -
Some people who are obsessed with food become gourmet chefs. Others become eating disorders.
-- Marya Hornbacher -
It is not a sudden leap from sick to well. It is a slow, strange meander from sick to mostly well. The misconception that eating disorders are a medical disease in the traditional sense is not helpful here. There is no 'cure'. A pill will not fix it, though it may help. Ditto therapy, ditto food, ditto endless support from family and friends. You fix it yourself. It is the hardest thing that I have ever done, and I found myself stronger for doing it. Much stronger.
-- Marya Hornbacher -
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I think I just realized that having a problem - an eating disorder - it's not healthy and you can actually die from that. I realized it's not worth it and you just need to be healthy.
-- Nicole Polizzi -
An eating disorder is serious and it's a disease, and I don't think you can lightly say that someone has a disease unless they're openly telling you that they do.
-- Nicole Richie -
An eating disorder epidemic suggests that love and disgust are being jointly marketed, as it were; that wherever the proposition might first have come from, the unacceptability of the female body has been disseminated culturally.
-- Rachel Cusk -
It's like, at the end, there's this surprise quiz: Am I proud of me? I gave my life to become the person I am right now. Was it worth what I paid?
-- Richard Bach -
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The more people talk about eating disorders, the more people get the real story about what they're like.
-- Scarlett Pomers -
You dont have to have an eating disorder to be happy or successful.
-- Scarlett Pomers -
To lose confidence in one’s body is to lose confidence in oneself.
-- Simone de Beauvoir -
She began to be reassured by these pains, tangible symbols of her success in becoming thinner than anyone else. Her only identity was being "the skinniest." She had to feel it.
-- Steven Levenkron -
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When I was dealing with the eating disorder, I wanted to look like the stick-thin models, but then I started reading fitness magazines and seeing these girls with great bodies that weren’t too muscular.
-- Torrie Wilson -
Food can become such a point of anxiety - not because it's food, but just because you have anxiety. That's how eating disorders develop.
-- Vanessa Carlton -
I want them [people] to feel open and comfortable to share the messy, dirty, shameful parts of themselves. Those are the parts I wanna see. And that eating disorders aren't just about "being thin."
-- Jessie Kahnweiler -
Because I make films about eating disorders and sexual assault, people always come up to me and are like, "Are you okay?" like I'm a broken-down shell of a woman.
-- Jessie Kahnweiler -
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In the entirety of my life, I have never had an eating disorder.
-- Joyce Giraud -
Food is a complicated subject for me. Food brings joy, satisfaction, and conflict. Eating disorders plague my family. Their consequences have been painful, expensive, violent, and deadly. You haven't lived till you've watched a woman die of starvation.
-- Myriam Gurba -
You deserve the place you have in this world. Do not let the eating disorder take that from you.
-- Rae Smith -
There have been so many stories about alcoholism and drugs. Eating disorders are also a form of abuse, but rarely a theme in feature films that aren't documentaries.
-- Sanna Lenken -
