Addiction, obesity, starvation (anorexia nervosa) are political problems, not psychiatric: each condense and expresses a contest between the individual and some other… — Thomas Szasz Copy Share Image
The only number that would ever be enough is 0. Zero pounds, zero life, size zero, double-zero, zero point. Zero in tennis… — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
A lot of the girls were awful, very catty. It was a competitive environment that I didn't like. You have no idea… — Kate Winslet Copy Share Image
While I was never diagnosed with anorexia or bulimia at the time, I've learned that starving myself and bingeing means I had… — Joanna Krupa Copy Share Image
Anorexia is a disease that happens to people, mostly women and girls, who have obsessive, perfectionist personalities. — Crystal Renn Copy Share Image
Anorexia is a response to cultural images of the female body - waiflike, angular - that both capitulates to the ideal and… — Caroline Knapp 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
“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
“Why? You want to know why? Step into a tanning booth and fry yourself for two or three days. After your skin… — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
A little bit of anorexia, a little bit of bulimia. I'm not totally OK now but I don't think any woman is. — Amy Winehouse Copy Share Image
Anorexia was there for me before I got into modeling, but because of the arena and the demands, the disease really got… — Carre Otis 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
“Pierre Janet, a French professor of psychology who became prominent in the early twentieth century, attempted to fully chronicle late- Victorian hysteria… — Michelle Stacey Copy Share Image
“Recovery doesn't mean putting your life on hold. Recovery means holding on so you can live your best life.” — Brittany Burgunder Copy Share Image
You will miss her sometimes. Bear in mind she's trying to kill you. Bear in mind you have a life to live. — Marya Hornbacher Copy Share Image
I have a remarkable ability to delete all better judgement from my brain when I get my head set on something. I… — Marya Hornbacher Copy Share Image
“A cultural fixation on female thinness is not an obsession about female beauty but an obsession about female obedience." -Naomi Wolf” — Stacey M. Rosenfeld Copy Share Image
“I didn't realize there was a ranking." I said. "Sadie frowned. "What do you mean?" "A ranking," I said. "You know, what's… — Michael Thomas Ford Copy Share Image
I became very depressed, and my only way of coping with it was through my eating disorder, so I just stopped eating. — Demi Lovato 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
One Day, I will Wake up and Will Not have to live in this madness anymore. But No matter what I do… — Dakota Blue Cicilline Copy Share Image
