I know how this feels: the tightening of the chest, the panic, the what-have-I-done-wait-I-was-kidding. Eating disorders linger so long undetected, eroding the… — Marya Hornbacher Copy Share Image
“Recovery is real. It's not a luck-of-the-draw deal where you put your name in a hat and hope to be chosen. It's… — Brittany Burgunder 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
I am forever engaged in a silent battle in my head over whether or not to lift the fork to my mouth,… — Jena Morrow Copy Share Image
“Clean eating necessarily implies that any other form of eating – and consequently the eater of it – is dirty or impure… — Nigella Lawson Copy Share Image
“You are not a mistake. You are not a problem to be solved. But you won't discover this until you are willing… — Geneen Roth Copy Share Image
I struggled with restricting and purging. It is not really anorexia or bulimia. It is more anorexia than bulimia, but it doesnt… — Malika Andrews 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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
Male domination, and the low and stigmatised status of women, cause teenage girls to engage in punishment of their bodies through eating… — Sheila Jeffreys 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 so many people who have eating disorders or who body shame themselves every day or have some sort of insecurity,… — Lauren Alaina Copy Share Image
“Maybe we choose to stay in a constant state of ignorance as a protective instinct — maybe I was just in denial.… — Piper Caleb 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
In college I had a coach who did that for me. I was struggling so much mentally with depression, anxiety, eating disorders...… — Bianca Belair 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
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
“Culture alone cannot explain the phenomena of such high rates of eating disorders. Eating disorders are complex, but what they all seem… — Karen A. Duncan Copy Share Image
“Along with many other professionals, I’ve come to the conclusion that shame is much more likely to lead to destructive and hurtful… — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
“Your ideal weight is a collection of experiences, feelings, ambitions, and mental processes. It's a space that is fluid, ever-changing, and abstract.… — Brittany Burgunder Copy Share Image
“Sexual satisfaction eases the stranglehold of materialism, since status symbols no longer look sexual, but irrelevant. Product lust weakens where emotional and… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
Having an eating disorder doesn't show ‘strength.’ Strength is when are able to overcome your demons after being sick and tired for… — Demi Lovato Copy Share Image
In our fast-forward culture, we have lost the art of eating well. Food is often little more than fuel to pour down… — Carl Honore 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
“The more legal and material hindrances women have broken through, the more strictly and heavily and cruelly images of female beauty have… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
Society. The same society, I might add, that dictates that little girls should always be sugar and spice and everything nice, which… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Our society does reward beauty on the outside over health on the inside. Women must not be blamed for choosing short-term beauty… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
“As she continually disregards and overrides her body's signals of hunger, fullness, and fatigue, a bulimic woman becomes increasingly disconnected from her… — Sheila M. Reindl 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
It was always hard work to push through a crowed of reporters with the scent of blood in their nostrils. You might… — Jeff Lindsay Copy Share Image
“She may resent Playboy because she resents feeling ugly in sex--or, if "beautiful," her body defined and diminished by pornography. It inhibits… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
I'd like to have finally answered the anorexic question so profoundly and definitively, that would be the end of it. The only… — Kate Beckinsale Copy Share Image
It's my life dream to be able to go and continue going to schools and teaching them about stretching and aerobics, cardio… — Richard Simmons 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
“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/i/bc2/naomi-wolf-1344_advertising_where-woman-do-not-fit-the-iron-maiden-s_891982.png)
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