There are lots of eating disorders out there. It's not just anorexia. — Zara McDermott 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
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
I starve myself to please my eyes in the mirror, but as the hurt goes on the pain gets clearer. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Anorexics never have boyfriends. ... That's one way to know you don't have anorexia, if you have a boyfriend. — Ann Coulter 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
What you persist in doing gets easier. The task hasn't changed, but your ability to do it has increased. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
You deserve the place you have in this world. Do not let the eating disorder take that from you. — Rae Smith Copy Share Image
Our credulity is greatest concerning the things we know least about. And since we know least about ourselves, we are ready to… — Anonymous 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 didn't choose to get anorexia. I may have made some childhood-like choices to try to control something. 'I know what I'll… — Ginger Zee Copy Share Image
In high school, I had a couple girlfriends who had very extreme eating disorders. Anorexia and bulimia. And in college as well.… — Katie Lowes Copy Share Image
I suffered with bulimia and anorexia when I was training for the Olympics - I felt like I was overweight and eating… — Colin Jackson Copy Share Image
I did extensive research on media and anorexia and found out that the fashion magazines are to blame in a way. They… — Oliviero Toscani Copy Share Image
“Anorexics are the best liars in the world. You do anything to keep control. You place people into separate categories, those you… — Peter Barham Copy Share Image
[The press] said to me yesterday 'How does it feel to be called anorexic?' and I had no idea that I was.… — Keira Knightley Copy Share Image
“The return of the voices would end in a migraine that made my whole body throb. I could do nothing except lie… — Alice Jamieson Copy Share Image
“Another page turns on the calendar, April now, not March. …. I am spinning the silk threads of my story, weaving the… — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
I think anorexia is a metaphor. It is a young woman's statement that she will become what the culture asks of its… — Mary Pipher 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
“When you have a persistent sense of heartbreak and gutwrench, the physical sensations become intolerable and we will do anything to make… — Bessel A. van der Kolk Copy Share Image
“Willow sees her before any of the others. A walking skeleton, the victim of some terrible wasting disease, like something out of… — Julia Hoban Copy Share Image
Smoke gunpowder and go to school to jump through hoops, sit up and beg, and roll over on command. Listen to the… — Anonymous 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