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> [“When we believe ourselves to be alone, we have no responsibility to this world and are answerable to no one.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marya-hornbacher/when-we-believe-ourselves-to-be-alone-we-have-no-responsibility-to/)

[Marya Hornbacher](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marya-hornbacher/)

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## More by Marya Hornbacher

> [“Something had been confirmed: I was worth giving a shit about; I was getting to be a successful sick person. Sick is when they…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marya-hornbacher/something-had-been-confirmed-i-was-worth-giving-a-shit-about-i-was/)

[Marya Hornbacher](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marya-hornbacher/)

> [Because I'm not, in fact, depressed, Prozac makes me manic and numb - one of the reasons I slice my arm in the first…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marya-hornbacher/because-i-m-not-in-fact-depressed-prozac-makes-me-manic-and-numb-one/)

[Marya Hornbacher](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marya-hornbacher/)

> [“perhaps our purpose is, for the time being, to be human, to live on this earth and in this human community, to receive something…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marya-hornbacher/perhaps-our-purpose-is-for-the-time-being-to-be-human-to-live-on-this/)

[Marya Hornbacher](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marya-hornbacher/)

> [I have never been normal about my body. It has always seemed to me a strange and foreign entity. I don't know that there…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marya-hornbacher/i-have-never-been-normal-about-my-body-it-has-always-seemed-to-me-a/)

[Marya Hornbacher](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marya-hornbacher/)

> [The joy is an absurd yellow tulip, popping up in my life, contradicting all the evidence that shows it should not be there.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marya-hornbacher/the-joy-is-an-absurd-yellow-tulip-popping-up-in-my-life-contradicting/)

[Marya Hornbacher](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marya-hornbacher/)

> [“At a certain point, an eating disorder ceases to be "about" any one thing. It stops being about your family, or your culture. Very…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marya-hornbacher/at-a-certain-point-an-eating-disorder-ceases-to-be-about-any-one/)

[Marya Hornbacher](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marya-hornbacher/)

> [You can't teach an ear, you can't teach talent, but you can teach people who have those things not to just fly by the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marya-hornbacher/you-can-t-teach-an-ear-you-can-t-teach-talent-but-you-can-teach/)

[Marya Hornbacher](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marya-hornbacher/)

> [It's really interesting to me how all of us can experience the exact same event, and yet come away with wildly disparate interpretations of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marya-hornbacher/it-s-really-interesting-to-me-how-all-of-us-can-experience-the-exact/)

[Marya Hornbacher](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marya-hornbacher/)

> [“Being here, living now, recognizing our smallness, is a spiritual practice. It allows us to be at peace with our humanity. It humbles us…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marya-hornbacher/being-here-living-now-recognizing-our-smallness-is-a-spiritual/)

[Marya Hornbacher](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marya-hornbacher/)

> [We think of bulimia and anorexia as either a bizarre psychosis, or as a quirky little habit, a phase, or as a thing that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marya-hornbacher/we-think-of-bulimia-and-anorexia-as-either-a-bizarre-psychosis-or-as/)

[Marya Hornbacher](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marya-hornbacher/)

> [The anoretic operates under the astounding illusion that she can escape the flesh, and, by association, the realm of emotions.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marya-hornbacher/the-anoretic-operates-under-the-astounding-illusion-that-she-can/)

[Marya Hornbacher](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marya-hornbacher/)

> [If I had been a different sort of person, maybe less impressionable, less intense, less fearful, less utterly dependent upon the perceptions of others…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marya-hornbacher/if-i-had-been-a-different-sort-of-person-maybe-less-impressionable/)

[Marya Hornbacher](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marya-hornbacher/)

> [“Every morning I watched the sun rise and read a highly religious little meditation book and tried having a conversation with God. I waited…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marya-hornbacher/every-morning-i-watched-the-sun-rise-and-read-a-highly-religious/)

[Marya Hornbacher](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marya-hornbacher/)

> [My bones are brittle, my heart weak and erratic, my esophagus and stomach riddled with ulcers, my reproductive system shot, my immune system useless...…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marya-hornbacher/my-bones-are-brittle-my-heart-weak-and-erratic-my-esophagus-and/)

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> [One really ought to be afraid of self-torture. But it tempted me. It begged. The dark place that my mind was fast becoming blends,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marya-hornbacher/one-really-ought-to-be-afraid-of-self-torture-but-it-tempted-me-it/)

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