Girls developed eating disorders when our culture developed a standard of beauty that they couldn't obtain by being healthy. When unnatural thinness… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I was anorexic in the '60s and '70s, although it wasn't called anorexia then. I thought people would be nicer to me… — Marianne Faithfull Copy Share Image
For years, I had used these fractured men to justify my cynicism and workaholism, and the grief, insomnia and casual anorexia were… — Antonella Gambotto-Burke Copy Share Image
From the newsstands a dozen models smiled up at her from a dozen magazine covers, smiled in thin-faced, high-cheekboned agreement to Kessa's… — Steven Levenkron Copy Share Image
“Fooling the body into thinking it's full on only a thousand calories can be difficult. The trick is to chew the food… — J. Matthew Nespoli Copy Share Image
“How easily such a thing can become a mania, how the most normal and sensible of women once this passion to be… — Kathryn Hurn Copy Share Image
“Emma says her illness was a kind of self-hypnosis which obliterated the outside world, a way of escaping life and reducing its… — Carol Lee Copy Share Image
Anorexia, you starve yourself. Bulimia, you binge and purge. You eat huge amounts of food until you're sick and then you throw… — Tracey Gold Copy Share Image
“At the lip of a cliff, I look out over Lake Superior, through the bare branches of birches and the snow-covered branches… — Marya Hornbacher Copy Share Image
“I think maybe they come out into the grounds in nightwear. But no, in typical anorexic stype they have read the fashion… — Carol Lee Copy Share Image
“One weekend it rained for 48 hours without stopping. The rain beat like bony fingers against the window panes. Tap. Tap. Tap.… — Alice Jamieson Copy Share Image
“In 1944-1945, Dr Ancel Keys, a specialist in nutrition and the inventor of the K-ration, led a carefully controlled yearlong study of… — Michelle Stacey Copy Share Image
I wanted to make a film about anorexia. I thought about it for a long time, but then gave up on this… — Malgorzata Szumowska Copy Share Image
“She used to look forward to changing in the locker room when other girls stole shocked glances at her emaciated body last… — Steven Levenkron Copy Share Image
“Every lineament of the girl's wasted body is a testament to her inner turmoil. Willow can only imagine what kind of pain… — Julia Hoban Copy Share Image
“Eating disorders are prevalent among women who were sexually abused as children. They seem to have components of other symptoms such as… — Karen A. Duncan Copy Share Image
“I decided to say something. It was through an email, an email to my mom confessing that I had a problem with… — Rachael Rose Steil Copy Share Image
“Deception' is the word I most associate with anorexia and the treachery which comes from falsehood. The illness appears inviting. It would… — Carol Lee Copy Share Image
I would eat 300 calories a day - a lot of Jell-O and no-sugar everything, of course. I was doing Pilates, weight-training,… — Portia de Rossi Copy Share Image
No matter what we weigh, those of us who are compulsive eaters have anorexia of the soul. We refuse to take in… — Geneen Roth Copy Share Image
I am forever engaged in a silent battle in my head over whether or not to lift the fork to my mouth,… — Jena Morrow Copy Share Image
If by that you mean that I dislike celebrity magazines, prefer food to anorexia, refuse to watch TV shows about models, and… — John Green Copy Share Image
I struggled with restricting and purging. It is not really anorexia or bulimia. It is more anorexia than bulimia, but it doesnt… — Malika Andrews Copy Share Image
Looking to biology to explain the low prevalence of eating disorders among men is like looking to genetics to explain why nonsmokers… — Susan Bordo Copy Share Image
“Many obese people spend a significant amount of their energy on suppressing the urge to tell some of the people who are… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“I've come to realize that hunger feels more like home than any tangible structure ever has, or probably ever will. I know… — Kris Kidd Copy Share Image
Anorexia and bulimia seem to be getting much more common in boys, men, and women of all ages and socioeconomic backgrounds; they… — Marya Hornbacher Copy Share Image
For the longest time, Indian women have been okay with being curvy. But I think the modern Indian woman needs to get… — Bipasha Basu Copy Share Image
I used to refer to myself as a 'theoretical anorexic,' just as crazy when it came to body image, but saved by… — Ayelet Waldman Copy Share Image
“If you put the wrong foods in your body, you are contaminated and dirty and your stomach swells. Then the voice says,… — Bethany Pierce Copy Share Image
“I was a very lonely child and it's funny but the first word that comes to my head is "starved". I felt… — Carol Lee Copy Share Image
For many years, I struggled with how I felt about myself. I hid and harbored very self-destructive eating issues, namely anorexia, which… — Renee Olstead Copy Share Image
She ran her hands over her body as if to bid it good-bye. The hipbones rising from a shrunken stomach were razor-sharp.… — Steven Levenkron Copy Share Image
Besides, I'd heard too many Karen Carpenter tales at Gladstone PTA meetings, and they often took the form of boasts. The prestigious… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
“i deem her insecurities insufferable turn-offs as if the male standard for sexiness is a gospel that demands she stop starving herself… — Britt Greifeld Copy Share Image
“While she is still hospitalised, I take Emma out for strengthening walks, for her muscles and been under-used for a long time.… — Carol Lee Copy Share Image
“Around eighth grade Margot started getting really sensitive about her weight, even though she wasn’t remotely fat—just a little round-faced. So Margot… — Isobel Irons Copy Share Image
