Anorexia Quote by Anonymous

Too many young girls have eating disorders due to low self-esteem and distorted body image. I think it's so important for girls to love…

— Ariana Grande

Women with body image or eating disorders are not a special category; [they’re] just more extreme in their response to a culture that emphasizes…

— Gloria Steinem

Our society's strong emphasis on dieting and self-image can sometimes lead to eating disorders. We know that more than 5 million Americans suffer from…

— Tipper Gore

“Culture alone cannot explain the phenomena of such high rates of eating disorders. Eating disorders are complex, but what they all seem to have…

— Karen A. Duncan

A culture fixated on female thinness is not an obsession about female beauty, but an obsession about female obedience. Dieting is the most potent…

— Naomi Wolf

Within the modeling industry, there's no doubt that there are some girls out there that are too thin. But there are also girls who…

— Nigel Barker

“Eating disorders are prevalent among women who were sexually abused as children. They seem to have components of other symptoms such as obsessions, compulsions,…

— Karen A. Duncan

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 bodies; eating…

— Susan Bordo

To ask women to become unnaturally thin is to ask them to relinquish their sexuality.

— Naomi Wolf

A cultural fixation on female thinness is not an obsession about female beauty but an obsession about female obedience.

— Naomi Wolf

Society. The same society, I might add, that dictates that little girls should always be sugar and spice and everything nice, which encourages them…

— Anonymous

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: depression, eating…

— Peggy Orenstein