Food is a complicated subject for me. Food brings joy, satisfaction, and conflict. Eating disorders plague my family. Their consequences have been… — Myriam Gurba Copy Share Image
“No one could see the thoughts when the body looked normal to them. The voice wanted it to just be the two… — Rachael Rose Steil Copy Share Image
“To anyone who thinks eating disorders are something rich, bored white girls do to get attention, I bid you bite me. I… — Stacy Pershall Copy Share Image
“And that’s the problem. When you’re alive, people can hurt you. It’s easier to crawl into a bone cage or a snowdrift… — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
“It’s 2009, a Thursday night in September, and I’ve stopped looking for stars in the Los Angeles sky. I settle instead for… — Kris Kidd Copy Share Image
“It's funny. When we first started hanging out I didn't want Ashley to think I was a pig, so I was careful… — Natasha Friend Copy Share Image
Women with body image or eating disorders are not a special category; [they’re] just more extreme in their response to a culture… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
“Alice's dinner consisted of one-half cup medium-grain white rice (120 calories), four spears of asparagus (20 calories), and a pat of butter… — Sherry Shahan Copy Share Image
“In a sexual double standard as to who receives consumer protection, it seems that if what you do is done to women… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
“Self-denial can lock women into a smug and critical condescension to other, less devout women. According to Appel, cult members develop..."an attitude… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
“A bulimic person may be so disconnected from her experience that she does not even know what she needs or wants. If… — Sheila M. Reindl Copy Share Image
“Recovering is a process of coming to experience a sense of self. More precisely, it is a process of learning to sense… — Sheila M. Reindl Copy Share Image
Stop trying to find something in food that will make you feel better. I used to have eating disorders; I'd binge and… — Richard Simmons Copy Share Image
“Young women today feel vulnerable to judgment; if a harsh sentence is passed (or even suspected or projected), it is not her… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
It is not a sudden leap from sick to well. It is a slow, strange meander from sick to mostly well. The… — Marya Hornbacher Copy Share Image
I suffered from eating disorders when I was just a kid. I did not like me or the way I looked. But… — Richard Simmons Copy Share Image
“I drift into the armpits of strangers, tasting their manic salt, and sleep to forget everything.” — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
Eating disorders are A) not fun at parties, and B) they're not very fun in movies. — Marti Noxon Copy Share Image
Having struggled with food issues and eating disorders myself, particularly when I was younger, I've long been interested in using it within… — Jane Green Copy Share Image
“Recovery is a verb, not a noun. You have to be an active participant in order to continuously improve.” — Brittany Burgunder Copy Share Image
“A look of interest, or perhaps doubt, came across his face. "Well," he said, "I'm sure your bulimia was fulfilling some need.” — Kathryn Hansen Copy Share Image
Eating disorders, body dysmorphia and a general dissatisfaction with one's life and body seems to ail too many young people. — Carre Otis Copy Share Image
“Your lowest moment and life can be your best if you survive it and learn from it” — Brian Cuban Copy Share Image
“Eating is not a crime. It’s not a moral issue. It’s normal. It’s enjoyable. It just is.” — Carrie Arnold Copy Share Image
“Eating disorder recovery becomes possible when you keep making the next right decision over and over. With time, these decisions become automatic.” — Brittany Burgunder Copy Share Image
I don't believe you have to have eating disorders and mental illness to screw up. — Kirstie Alley Copy Share Image
“I'm just scared I won't run as fast as I did my freshman year,' I admitted, choking back tears. Coach Woj looked… — Rachael Rose Steil Copy Share Image
When a lot of people wake up in the morning and put on their underwear, the first thing they feel that day… — Rain Dove Copy Share Image
I want them [people] to feel open and comfortable to share the messy, dirty, shameful parts of themselves. Those are the parts… — Jessie Kahnweiler Copy Share Image
“I decided to say something. It was through an email, an email to my mom confessing that I had a problem with… — Rachael Rose Steil Copy Share Image
I actually avoid talking about my diet and exercise regime because I have interviewed so many people affected by eating disorders and… — Holly Willoughby Copy Share Image
“To actually accept that you have an eating disorder or a mental health issue is actually a sign of great, great strength.… — Nigel Owens Copy Share Image
Girls developed eating disorders when our culture developed a standard of beauty that they couldn't obtain by being healthy. When unnatural thinness… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“In the mirror I stand, an injured deer in headlights, or maybe high beams, judging by the way my eyes water. I… — Kris Kidd Copy Share Image
Stop trying to find something in food that will make you feel better. I used to have eating disorders; I'd binge and… — Richard Simmons Copy Share Image
“For the first time in history, children are growing up whose earliest sexual imprinting derives not from a living human being, or… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
“So here is what I see when we reclaim the church ladies: a woman loved and free is beautiful. She is laughing… — Sarah Bessey Copy Share Image
“If your boundaries have been injured, you may find that when you are in conflict with someone, you shut down without even… — Henry Cloud Copy Share Image
The fact is that Chinese parents can do things that would seem unimaginable-even legally actionable-to Westerners. Chinese mothers can say to their… — Amy Chua Copy Share Image
• Eating disorders are addictions. You become addicted to a number of their effects. The two most basic and important: the pure… — Marya Hornbacher Copy Share Image
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