Anorexia Quotes

95 quotes by 63 authors

When I was 19 years old, I came down with anorexia. I had it for about a year before it became public. And it had… — Tracey Gold
Anorexia is an awful thing, but you get yourself into it, and only you can get yourself out of it. — Celia Imrie
For years, I had used these fractured men to justify my cynicism and workaholism, and the grief, insomnia and casual anorexia were no longer of… — Antonella Gambotto-Burke
In New York, if you weigh under 200 pounds and decline so much as a cookie at a co-worker's party, women will flock to your… — Sloane Crosley
The outward man is the swinging door; the inner man is the still hinge. — Meister Eckhart
I was anorexic in the '60s and '70s, although it wasn't called anorexia then. I thought people would be nicer to me if I looked… — Marianne Faithfull
The only kind of dignity which is genuine is that which is not diminished by the indifference of others. — Dag Hammarskjold
What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self! — Nathaniel Hawthorne
All the world is full of suffering. It is also full of overcoming. — Helen Keller
Anorexia is a response to cultural images of the female body - waiflike, angular - that both capitulates to the ideal and also mocks it,… — Caroline Knapp
Love yourself instead of abusing yourself. — Karolina Kurkova
The promises of this world are, for the most part, vain phantoms; and to confide in one's self, and become something of worth and value… — Michelangelo
Anorexia was there for me before I got into modeling, but because of the arena and the demands, the disease really got out of control… — Carre Otis
Many women who have anorexia put their hearts in a compromised situation. — Carre Otis
Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light. Above all things reverence thyself. — Pythagoras
In my own mind, I am still a fat brunette from Toledo, and I always will be. — Gloria Steinem
It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love. — Voltaire
I used to refer to myself as a 'theoretical anorexic,' just as crazy when it came to body image, but saved by a lack of… — Ayelet Waldman
A lot of the girls were awful, very catty. It was a competitive environment that I didn't like. You have no idea of the anorexia… — Kate Winslet
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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