Anorexia is not an illness of the body; it is an illness…

“Anorexia is, without doubt, a serious eating disorder, but there is a hell of a lot of mainstream disordered eating going on out there.”

— Emma Woolf

If we are ready to tear down the walls that confine us, break the cage that imprisons us, we will discover what our wings…

— Michael Elmore-Meegan

“Being constantly hungry is no life at all.”

— Emma Woolf

“I’ve never had anorexia, but I know it well. I see it on the street, in the gaunt and sunken face, the boney chest,…

— Harriet Brown

“Between 10 and 20 percent of people with anorexia die from heart attacks, other complications and suicide; the disease has the highest mortality rate…

— Harriet Brown

“Emma cites the structure of the [Eating Disorder] Unit as being important to her decision to disengage from her illness, and the fact that…

— Carol Lee

I was struggling with anorexia, and one of the biggest problems with an eating disorder is you don't realize you have it. And you…

— Lindsey Stirling

Finding a cure for anorexia should be a piece of cake.

— Charles Elba

“I know what you're thinking. ‘How the hell does this broke ass piece of trailer trash know words like caveat,’ right? Well guess what?…

— Isobel Irons

I wanted to kill the me underneath. That fact haunted my days and nights. When you realize you hate yourself so much, when you…

— Anonymous

“Even with friends, I had difficulty giving or receiving physical affection, although I secretly craved it.”

— Kate M. Taylor

Man is never alone. Acknowledged or unacknowledged, that which dreams through him is always there to support him from within.

— Laurens van der Post

Anorexia was my attempt to have control over my body and manipulate my body and starve my body and shape my body. It was…

— Eve Ensler

I am forever engaged in a silent battle in my head over whether or not to lift the fork to my mouth, and when…

— Jena Morrow

“Fooling the body into thinking it's full on only a thousand calories can be difficult. The trick is to chew the food until it's…

— J. Matthew Nespoli