“Anorexia is, without doubt, a serious eating disorder, but there is a hell of a lot of mainstream disordered eating going on… — Emma Woolf Copy Share Image
If we are ready to tear down the walls that confine us, break the cage that imprisons us, we will discover what… — Michael Elmore-Meegan 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
“Between 10 and 20 percent of people with anorexia die from heart attacks, other complications and suicide; the disease has the highest… — Harriet Brown Copy Share Image
“Emma cites the structure of the [Eating Disorder] Unit as being important to her decision to disengage from her illness, and the… — Carol Lee Copy Share Image
“I know what you're thinking. ‘How the hell does this broke ass piece of trailer trash know words like caveat,’ right? Well… — Isobel Irons Copy Share Image
I wanted to kill the me underneath. That fact haunted my days and nights. When you realize you hate yourself so much,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Even with friends, I had difficulty giving or receiving physical affection, although I secretly craved it.” — Kate M. Taylor Copy Share Image
Man is never alone. Acknowledged or unacknowledged, that which dreams through him is always there to support him from within. — Laurens van der Post Copy Share Image
Anorexia was my attempt to have control over my body and manipulate my body and starve my body and shape my body.… — Eve Ensler 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
“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
“If I was set an essay on Friday, I’d spend three hours on Saturday morning in the library. Was that normal? I… — Alice Jamieson Copy Share Image
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… — Tracey Gold Copy Share Image
There is no magic cure, no making it all go away forever. There are only small steps upward; an easier day, an… — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
We think of bulimia and anorexia as either a bizarre psychosis, or as a quirky little habit, a phase, or as a… — Marya Hornbacher 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
The anoretic operates under the astounding illusion that she can escape the flesh, and, by association, the realm of emotions. — Marya Hornbacher Copy Share Image
“As I searched for food perfection, and as I gained weight, I began to realize that the race for perfection in anything… — Rachael Rose Steil 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
As far as stimulus from the visual arts specifically, there is today in most of us a visual appetite that is hungry,… — John Walford Copy Share Image
Dear Anorexia, You are my best friend, and my worst enemy at the same time You are my greatest achievement, and yet… — Dakota Blue Cicilline 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
