“I felt as if I had a secret stomach that could never be filled, always cramping for hunger, even when my regular… — Gaia B. Amman Copy Share Image
“I need to make myself strong on the inside instead of what is on the outside. I know all of this, but… — Piper Caleb Copy Share Image
This is for all the BOYS..The boys who self harm..The boys who have eating disorders..The boys who suffer from anorexia, depression etc.The… — Camille Cassie Govender Copy Share Image
“I'm a food addict. I've tried everything- Weight Watchers, The South Beach, raw food, Atkins, low-fat diets. Nothing works for me." I… — Dr. Frederick Woolverton Copy Share Image
It's hard with ballet because your aesthetic really is important. It's different from acting and from film. Nobody wants to watch somebody… — Amanda Schull Copy Share Image
I became a spokeswoman for eating disorders. I would say about three or four months after I actually came out about it.… — Jamie Lynn Sigler 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
“Your body is the piece of the universe you've been given; as long as you have a pulse, it presents you with… — Geneen Roth Copy Share Image
“If your boundaries have been injured, you may find that when you are in conflict with someone, you shut down without even… — Henry Cloud Copy Share Image
“So here is what I see when we reclaim the church ladies: a woman loved and free is beautiful. She is laughing… — Sarah Bessey Copy Share Image
“For the first time in history, children are growing up whose earliest sexual imprinting derives not from a living human being, or… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
Stop trying to find something in food that will make you feel better. I used to have eating disorders; I'd binge and… — Richard Simmons Copy Share Image
“As a journalist in Providence, I was particularly drawn toward stories about women's issues: I wrote about discrimination, abortion, violence against women.… — Caroline Knapp Copy Share Image
I think it would be fair to say that most female dancers have dealt with, whether it's an extreme, or minor complex… — Amanda Schull Copy Share Image
Bear in mind, people with eating disorders tend to be both competitive and intelligent. We are incredibly perfectionistic. We often excel in… — Marya Hornbacher Copy Share Image
Society is fucked up. they go and tell you to be yourself and then they go back own thier own words and… — Megannn Copy Share Image
Part of treatment for drugs and alcohol is you abstain from these, but with eating disorders you can't abstain from food so… — Carre Otis Copy Share Image
Eating disorders are usually nothing to do with food. Parents need to be with their child to see them through it. All… — Olivia Newton-John Copy Share Image
As the president of the Council of Fashion Designers of America, I represent the designers. And while we can by no means… — Diane von Furstenberg Copy Share Image
“In the mirror I stand, an injured deer in headlights, or maybe high beams, judging by the way my eyes water. I… — Kris Kidd Copy Share Image
It is not a sudden leap from sick to well. It is a slow, strange meander from sick to mostly well. The… — Marya Hornbacher Copy Share Image
“I’ve never had anorexia, but I know it well. I see it on the street, in the gaunt and sunken face, the… — Harriet Brown Copy Share Image
People with eating disorders tend to be very diametrical thinkers – everything is the end of the world, everything rides on this… — Marya Hornbacher Copy Share Image
“A bulimic person's shame may lead her to try to hide not only her eating-disorder behaviors but also her basic needs and… — Sheila M. Reindl Copy Share Image
“She's a baby," Maggie told me. "Babies wear pastels." "Says who?" I asked. ... "Society. The same society, I might add, that… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
I was bullied. I battled eating disorders. I lived through a harsh divorce. I'm still surviving severe clinical depression. And that's not… — Leila Copy Share Image
“The loneliness I endured during that time of my life is something I hope never to experience again. It's more than just… — Leanne Waters Copy Share Image
We are male and female. We are artists, athletes, students, and business owners. We have depression, DID, PTSD, eating disorders, borderline personalities,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“A consequence of female self-love is that the woman grows convinced of social worth. Her love for her body will be unqualified,… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
“SOCIETY AS COMPULSIVE AND ADDICTED Our society is highly addictive. We have sixty million sexual abuse victims. Possibly seventy-five million lives are… — John Bradshaw Copy Share Image
“When we feel like giving up, like we are beyond help, we must remember that we are never beyond hope. Holding on… — Jenni Schaefer Copy Share Image
When I eat, I'll immedietaly stick two fingeers down my throat and throw it back up. Its automatic and I am trying… — Fading_scars Copy Share Image
“We do not have to spend money and go hungry and struggle and study to become sensual; we always were. We need… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
“In yet another paradox, bulimia nervosa serves as both an expression of feelings and a defense against experiencing feelings, particularly shame, anger,… — Sheila M. Reindl Copy Share Image
“[Eating disorders] are a wonderful tool for helping you reject others before they can reject you. Example: You're at a party. The… — Stacy Pershall Copy Share Image
“She may resent Playboy because she resents feeling ugly in sex--or, if "beautiful," her body defined and diminished by pornography. It inhibits… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
“...compulsive eating is basically a refusal to be fully alive. No matter what we weigh, those of us who are compulsive eaters… — Geneen Roth Copy Share Image
It was always hard work to push through a crowed of reporters with the scent of blood in their nostrils. You might… — Jeff Lindsay Copy Share Image
I'd like to have finally answered the anorexic question so profoundly and definitively, that would be the end of it. The only… — Kate Beckinsale Copy Share Image
Society. The same society, I might add, that dictates that little girls should always be sugar and spice and everything nice, which… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
![“[Eating disorders] are a wonderful tool for helping you reject others before they can reject you. Example: You're at a party. The popular girls are there. You know you can never be as cool as they are, but when one of the pops a potato chip into her mouth or chooses real Coke over Diet, for that…” quote by Stacy Pershall](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/bcd/stacy-pershall-33606_anorexia_eating-disorders-are-a-wonderful-tool-fo_2456897.jpg)
