“If women cannot eat the same food as men, we cannot experience equal status in the community.” — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
The more people talk about eating disorders, the more people get the real story about what they're like. — Scarlett Pomers 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 disorders are like a gun that's formed by genetics, loaded by a culture and family ideals, and triggered by unbearable distress. — Aimee Liu Copy Share Image
“One of the most dangerous myths surrounding eating disorders is that they are a life sentence.” — Lynn Crilly 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
“I drift into the armpits of strangers, tasting their manic salt, and sleep to forget everything.” — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
Eating disorders can be extremely isolating, they can tear you away from your family and your friends and make you feel really… — Zara McDermott Copy Share Image
American Psychological Association, the girlie-girl culture’s emphasis on beauty and play-sexiness can increase girls’ vulnerability to the pitfalls that most concern parents:… — Peggy Orenstein 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
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
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
“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
“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
“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
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
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
“Jack unpacked sweatshirts, sweatpants, thick athletic socks. He wore them to encourage his body to reach a temperature hot enough to melt… — Sherry Shahan 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
“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
“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
BULLYING CAN LEAD TO: 1.)Depression 2.)Self-harm 3.)Eating Disorders 4.)Suicidal Thoughts 5.)S U I C I D A L — Anonymous 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
“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
“You are part of my story, and I want you to share the same ending I did--that of recovery, redemption, and hope.” — Rachael Rose Steil 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
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
“If you hold on to any part of your eating disorder, you are always one step away from a relapse.” — Brittany Burgunder Copy Share Image
“Dieting is the most potent political sedative in women's history; a quietly mad population is a tractable one.” — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
When people have eating disorders, they can't actually see what they truly look like because they're so clouded with their emotions. — Paula Patton Copy Share Image
“Anorexia is, without doubt, a serious eating disorder, but there is a hell of a lot of mainstream disordered eating going on… — Emma Woolf Copy Share Image
The link between young girls, eating disorders and osteoporosis is a ticking time-bomb. — Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall 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
“What if I'm so broken I can never do something as basic as feed myself? Do you realize how twisted that is?… — Amy Reed 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
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
