Quotes and Sayings About Anorexia
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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 -
Anorexics never have boyfriends. ... That's one way to know you don't have anorexia, if you have a boyfriend.
-- Ann Coulter -
Most dancers have no awareness of how they look; half of them think theyre fat. There is anorexia in the ballet world; there are those things.
-- Benjamin Millepied -
Anorexia is a response to cultural images of the female body - waiflike, angular - that both capitulates to the ideal and also mocks it, strips away all the ancillary signs of sexuality, strips away breasts and hips and butt and leaves in their place a garish caricature, a cruel cartoon of flesh and bone.
-- Caroline Knapp -
Many women who have anorexia put their hearts in a compromised situation.
-- Carre Otis -
I had been on this insane diet for almost 17 years to maintain the weight that was demanded of me when I was modeling. My diet was really starvation. I am not naturally that thin.
-- Carre Otis -
Anorexia was there for me before I got into modeling, but because of the arena and the demands, the disease really got out of control for me. It's like being an alcoholic and going and being a bartender.
-- Carre Otis -
Anorexia is an awful thing, but you get yourself into it, and only you can get yourself out of it.
-- Celia Imrie -
I don't want to feel I'm responsible for anorexia across the country.
-- Courteney Cox -
The only kind of dignity which is genuine is that which is not diminished by the indifference of others.
-- Dag Hammarskjold -
Falling, falling, falling, falling down. Look yourself in the eye before you drown.
-- Emily Saliers -
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 -
No matter what we weigh, those of us who are compulsive eaters have anorexia of the soul. We refuse to take in what sustains us. We live lives of deprivation. And when we can't stand it any longer, we binge.
-- Geneen Roth -
As far as stimulus from the visual arts specifically, there is today in most of us a visual appetite that is hungry, that is acutely undernourished. One might go so far as to say that Protestants in particular suffer from a form of visual anorexia. It is not that there is a lack of visual stimuli, but rather a lack of wholesomeness of form and content amidst the all-pervasive sensory overload.
-- John Walford -
Artistic anorexia & sexual avoidance have the same root fears – fear of intimacy, fear of exposure, fear of failure”.
-- Julia Cameron -
Love yourself instead of abusing yourself.
-- Karolina Kurkova -
People keep asking me about it but I don't want to be famous for being a former anorexic.
-- Kate Beckinsale -
I always felt that anorexia was the form of breakdown most readily available to adolescent girls.
-- Kate Beckinsale -
Now I'm being blamed not only for anorexia but for lung cancer
-- Kate Moss -
I don't understand anorexia; I'm too greedy to ever not eat I just can't do it.
-- Keshia Knight Pulliam -
I am, uh ... a 6 foot tall woman, I feel like I'm a healthy size, I'm not anorexic; and I feel that people who aren't anorexic are punished ... for not being anorexic.
-- Kristen Johnston -
It is often hard to bear the tears that we ourselves have caused.
-- Marcel Proust -
I was anorexic in the '60s and '70s, although it wasn't called anorexia then. I thought people would be nicer to me if I looked very small and delicate, so food wasn't high on my agenda. But it is now.
-- Marianne Faithfull -
In all the years I've been a therapist, I've yet to meet one girl who likes her body.
-- Mary Pipher -
Girls developed eating disorders when our culture developed a standard of beauty that they couldn't obtain by being healthy. When unnatural thinness became attractive, girls did unnatural things to be thin.
-- Mary Pipher -
We turn skeletons into goddesses and look to them as if they might teach us how not to need.
-- Marya Hornbacher -
I was anorexic-bulimic when I was 16-17. It was a top secret that time, but these things always are.
-- Peta Wilson -
Violence is spiritual junk food, and boredom is spiritual anorexia.
-- Peter Kreeft -
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 -
I used to pride myself on being impervious to the sentimentalities of soap opera, but when that loveliest of actresses, Rachel Gurney, of Upstairs, Downstairs, perished on the Titanic, I wept so convulsively and developed such anorexia that I had to be force-fed.
-- S. J. Perelman
