“We do not have to spend money and go hungry and struggle and study to become sensual; we always were. We need… — Naomi Wolf 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
There are a lot of eating disorders in our sport, so I try very hard not to get consumed by all that. — Laura Wilkinson Copy Share Image
Some people who are obsessed with food become gourmet chefs. Others become eating disorders. — Marya Hornbacher Copy Share Image
Food can become such a point of anxiety - not because it's food, but just because you have anxiety. That's how eating… — Vanessa Carlton 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
I was bullied. I battled eating disorders. I lived through a harsh divorce. I'm still surviving severe clinical depression. And that's not… — Leila Copy Share Image
“I felt as if I had a secret stomach that could never be filled, always cramping for hunger, even when my regular… — Gaia B. Amman Copy Share Image
People with eating disorders tend to be very diametrical thinkers – everything is the end of the world, everything rides on this… — Marya Hornbacher Copy Share Image
“Pain, too, comes from depths that cannot be revealed. We do not know whether those depths are in ourselves or elsewhere, in… — Tahar Ben Jelloun Copy Share Image
Depression is not an act. Eating disorders are not for fashion. Suicide isn't a cowards escape. Self-harm is not a cry for… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“If I had the capacity to withstand instantaneous physical pain, I think I would have even considered taking a razor to my… — Leanne Waters 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
“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
“The leap of faith is this: You have to believe, or at least pretend you believe until you really believe it, that… — Marya Hornbacher 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
It's hard with ballet because your aesthetic really is important. It's different from acting and from film. Nobody wants to watch somebody… — Amanda Schull Copy Share Image
“Our unexpressed ideas, opinions, and contributions don’t just go away. They are likely to fester and eat away at our worthiness. I… — Brené Brown 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
“As a journalist in Providence, I was particularly drawn toward stories about women's issues: I wrote about discrimination, abortion, violence against women.… — Caroline Knapp 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
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
During the investigation evidence of the vulnerability of women in the modelling profession was startling and models are at high risk of… — Baroness Kingsmill Denise Kingsmill Copy Share Image
“...compulsive eating is basically a refusal to be fully alive. No matter what we weigh, those of us who are compulsive eaters… — Geneen Roth Copy Share Image