quotes 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 LiuSource : Aimee Liu (2011). “Restoring Our Bodies, Reclaiming Our Lives: Guidance and Reflections on Recovery from Eating Disorders”, p.4, Shambhala Publications
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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 MillepiedSource : "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.
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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 -
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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 -
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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 -
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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 RothSource : Geneen Roth (2011). “Women Food and God: An Unexpected Path to Almost Everything”, p.42, Simon and Schuster
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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 failureâ€.
-- Julia Cameron -
Love yourself instead of abusing yourself.
-- Karolina Kurkova -
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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 MossSource : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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I don't understand anorexia; I'm too greedy to ever not eat I just can't do it.
-- Keshia Knight Pulliam -
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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 -
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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 PipherSource : Mary Pipher (2005). “Reviving Ophelia”, p.165, Penguin
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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 -
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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 -
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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Most women in our culture, then, are disordered when it comes to issues of self-worth, self-entitlement, self-nourishment, and comfort with their own bodies; eating disorders, far from being 'bizarre' and anomalous, are utterly continuous with a dominant element of the experience of being female in this culture.
-- Susan BordoSource : Susan Bordo (2004). “Unbearable Weight: Feminism, Western Culture, and the Body”, p.57, Univ of California Press
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Looking to biology to explain the low prevalence of eating disorders among men is like looking to genetics to explain why nonsmokers do not get lung cancer as often as smokers.
-- Susan BordoSource : Susan Bordo (2004). “Unbearable Weight: Feminism, Western Culture, and the Body”, p.53, Univ of California Press
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Anorexia is such a self-consuming, selfish disease. It's all about you. Becoming a mother, all of a sudden it wasn't about me anymore.
-- Tracey Gold -
I unwittingly became sort of this anorexia spokeswoman.
-- Tracey Gold -
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When I was 19 years old, I came down with anorexia. I had it for about a year before it became public. And it had a lot to do with my self-esteem.
-- Tracey Gold -
Anorexia, you starve yourself. Bulimia, you binge and purge. You eat huge amounts of food until you're sick and then you throw up. And anorexia, you just deny yourself. It's about control.
-- Tracey Gold -
I've experienced the tabloids when I had anorexia.
-- Tracey Gold -
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I was very obsessed. I mean, I could tell you the fat content and the calorie content in absolutely anything.
-- Victoria Beckham -
It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.
-- Voltaire -
You deserve the place you have in this world. Do not let the eating disorder take that from you.
-- Rae Smith -
You know you've got problems when your head is hanging over the toilet, puking up your dinner, and what you're thinking of is your dad. And how he thinks you're not pretty.
-- Teresa Lo -