"Exercise is the yuppie version of bulimia." — Barbara Ehrenreich
"Exercise is the yuppie version of bulimia."
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Barbara Ehrenreich
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117 Quotes by Barbara Ehrenreich
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More Bulimia Quotes
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Anorexia, you starve yourself. Bulimia, you binge and purge. You eat huge amounts of food until you're sick and then…
— Tracey Gold
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For every diet there's an equal and opposite binge (bulimia which is binging and purging is another way of depriving…
— Geneen Roth
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We think of bulimia and anorexia as either a bizarre psychosis, or as a quirky little habit, a phase, or…
— Marya Hornbacher
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I used to binge-eat and make myself throw up. I was a fat kid. Obviously I didn't quite master the…
— Russell Brand
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Anorexia and bulimia seem to be getting much more common in boys, men, and women of all ages and socioeconomic…
— Marya Hornbacher
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For me, the bulimia was about stuffing my emotions. So I stopped suppressing my feelings.
— Cheryl James
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Becoming the new feminine ideal requires just the right combination of insecurity, exercise, bulimia and surgery.
— Garry Trudeau
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We turn skeletons into goddesses and look to them as if they might teach us how not to need.
— Marya Hornbacher
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She had all the best things wrong with her—incest, insanity, drug addiction, bulimia, alopecia: you name it. All the perfect…
— Peter Cameron
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I finally understood that by being on a perpetual diet, I had practiced a "disordered" form of eating my whole…
— Portia de Rossi
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And dieting, I discovered, was another form of disordered eating, just as anorexia and bulimia similarly disrupt the natural order…
— Portia de Rossi
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I mean, we all know the dangers of starving, but bulimia? That can't be that bad. It's only bad when…
— Marya Hornbacher
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