“I promise no food will ever hurt you as much as a negative mind.” — Brittany Burgunder Copy Share Image
Who wants to recover? It took me years to get that tiny. I wasn't sick; I was strong. — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
“I knew, deep down, that running would not save me. Rawchael would not save me. Rachael would.” — Rachael Rose Steil 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
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
It's like, at the end, there's this surprise quiz: Am I proud of me? I gave my life to become the person… — Richard Bach 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
Girls, the only time its ok to be skeleton skinny is when you are dead, so eat the freakin cookie and enjoy… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I just saw a fat guy with a shirt that said: I beat anorexia. Defiantly made my day. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I am, uh ... a 6 foot tall woman, I feel like I'm a healthy size, I'm not anorexic; and I feel… — Kristen Johnston Copy Share Image
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
I want to go to sleep and not wake up, but I don't want to die. I want to eat like a… — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
A misperception about anorexia is that you don't eat. Not true. Maybe you eat just 500 calories a day. It would be… — Brittany Snow Copy Share Image
“For girls who've been pressured into sex they didn't want, growing into a woman's body can be terrifying. Anorexia and bulimia can… — Ellen Bass Copy Share Image
I used to pride myself on being impervious to the sentimentalities of soap opera, but when that loveliest of actresses, Rachel Gurney,… — S. J. Perelman Copy Share Image
You know you've got problems when your head is hanging over the toilet, puking up your dinner, and what you're thinking of… — Teresa Lo 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
I finally understood that by being on a perpetual diet, I had practiced a "disordered" form of eating my whole life. I… — Portia de Rossi 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
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
“In 1944-1945, Dr Ancel Keys, a specialist in nutrition and the inventor of the K-ration, led a carefully controlled yearlong study of… — Michelle Stacey 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
“I think maybe they come out into the grounds in nightwear. But no, in typical anorexic stype they have read the fashion… — Carol Lee 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
“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
In all the years I've been a therapist, I've yet to meet one girl who likes her body. — Mary Pipher Copy Share Image
Falling, falling, falling, falling down. Look yourself in the eye before you drown. — Emily Saliers Copy Share Image
Of all the mental illnesses, anorexia has the highest morbidity rate. It's serious. — Marti Noxon Copy Share Image
I almost lost my best friend to anorexia. I am lending my voice as an entertainer, a mom, and a friend because… — Sara Evans 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
Artistic anorexia & sexual avoidance have the same root fears – fear of intimacy, fear of exposure, fear of failure”. — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
I eat healthily, I do ballet and exercise, and I'm toned and tight, but I take up space, and I don't aspire… — Rachael Stirling 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
Anorexia cannot be cured by treating the physical symptoms alone; it is the mind which must be treated. — Lynn Crilly Copy Share Image
Every woman knows that, regardless of all her other achievements, she is a failure if she is not beautiful. — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
Now I'm being blamed not only for anorexia but for lung cancer. - On being a social smoker. — Kate Moss 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
I was very obsessed. I mean, I could tell you the fat content and the calorie content in absolutely anything. — Victoria Beckham Copy Share Image
