There are lots of eating disorders out there. It's not just anorexia. — Zara McDermott Copy Share Image
Eating disorders are one of the toughest things to talk about. It's very shame-based. — Paula Abdul Copy Share Image
“I promise no food will ever hurt you as much as a negative mind.” — Brittany Burgunder Copy Share Image
Even the models we see in magazines wish they could look like their own images. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There have been so many stories about alcoholism and drugs. Eating disorders are also a form of abuse, but rarely a theme… — Sanna Lenken 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 don’t need anyone else to distract me from myself anymore, like I always thought I would.” — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
“Everybody at Sweet Valley High, even Elizabeth, seemed to forget that there was ever a fat and ugly Robin. But Robin would… — Francine Pascal Copy Share Image
“So there you have it--my sorry tale. That's how something I though I controlled ended up controlling me.” — Sarah Darer Littman Copy Share Image
“management attitudes and behaviors. Most, if not all, adolescent and adult eating disorders, obsessive” — Ellyn Satter Copy Share Image
Some people who are obsessed with food become gourmet chefs. Others become eating disorders. — Marya Hornbacher Copy Share Image
“A huge part of recovery and life -is slowing down and accepting the unKNOWN. This is how you get to KNOW –yourself.” — Brittany Burgunder Copy Share Image
You don't understand...Cutting unless your'e a cutter. Drugs unless your'e a druggie. Suicide unless you've attempted it. Eating disorders unless you've had… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Most women in our culture, then, are disordered when it comes to issues of self-worth, self-entitlement, self-nourishment, and comfort with their own… — Susan Bordo Copy Share Image
Studies show that the more often families eat together, the less likely kids are to smoke, drink, do drugs, get depressed, develop… — Nancy Gibbs Copy Share Image
“Most of us are so enthralled with the scary tigers in our minds--our stories of loneliness, rejection, grief--that we don't realize they… — Geneen Roth Copy Share Image
Our society's strong emphasis on dieting and self-image can sometimes lead to eating disorders. We know that more than 5 million Americans… — Tipper Gore 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’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
Eating disorders are shrouded in secrecy, and there are so many things I felt very ashamed of that I could never talk… — Portia de Rossi Copy Share Image
“Where woman do not fit the Iron Maiden [societal expectations/assumptions about women's bodies], we are now being called monstrous, and the Iron… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
“The beauty myth of the present is more insidious than any mystique of femininity yet: A century ago, Nora slammed the door… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
Their [those with eating disorders'] task is to rescue themselves from a drive that is destroying them. Food embodies the false values… — Marion Woodman Copy Share Image
“Men are visually aroused by women's bodies and less sensitive to their arousal by women's personalities because they are trained early into… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
“All my mind and body wanted at this point was to be tucked away somewhere with the entire tray of brownies and… — Rachael Rose Steil Copy Share Image
This is the very boring part of eating disorders, the aftermath. When you eat and hate that you eat. And yet of… — Marya Hornbacher Copy Share Image
“We may also discover that sexual abuse helps to explain the high prevalence rates of eating disorders among women and may lend… — Karen A. Duncan 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
“Can you tell me why you added weight to your gown?" Dr. Chu asked. Another trick question. Bones shrugged. "I wanted you… — Sherry Shahan Copy Share Image
“When you ignore your belly, you become homeless. You spend your life trying to erase your own existence. Apologizing for yourself. Feeling… — Geneen Roth Copy Share Image
“Why does the social order feel the need to defend itself by evading the fact of real women, our faces and voices… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
“When you believe without knowing you believe that you are damaged at your core, you also believe that you need to hide… — Geneen Roth Copy Share Image
“We all know many people who come from hard-working families, where they had to grow up with a bare minimum and become… — Anna Stevens Copy Share Image
“When we feel like giving up, like we are beyond help, we must remember that we are never beyond hope. Holding on… — Jenni Schaefer Copy Share Image
When I eat, I'll immedietaly stick two fingeers down my throat and throw it back up. Its automatic and I am trying… — Fading_scars Copy Share Image
“Women could probably be trained quite easily to see men first as sexual things. If girls never experienced sexual violence; if a… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
![“Where woman do not fit the Iron Maiden [societal expectations/assumptions about women's bodies], we are now being called monstrous, and the Iron Maiden is exactly that which no woman fits, or fits forever. A woman is being asked to feel like a monster now though she is whole and fully physically…” quote by Naomi Wolf](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/bc2/naomi-wolf-1344_advertising_where-woman-do-not-fit-the-iron-maiden-s_891982.jpg)
![“Their [those with eating disorders'] task is to rescue themselves from a drive that is destroying them. Food embodies the false values that their own bodies refuse to assimilate, by which I mean that their bodies become edemic, bloated, allergic, or resort to vomiting the poison out. The…” quote by Marion Woodman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/fa7/marion-woodman-11249_allergic_their-those-with-eating-disorders-task-i_1331948.jpg)
