Anorexia Quotes

95 quotes by 63 authors

There is no magic cure, no making it all go away forever. There are only small steps upward; an easier day, an unexpected laugh, a… — Laurie Halse Anderson
The anoretic operates under the astounding illusion that she can escape the flesh, and, by association, the realm of emotions. — Marya Hornbacher
It is often hard to bear the tears that we ourselves have caused. — Marcel Proust
Who wants to recover? It took me years to get that tiny. I wasn't sick; I was strong. — Laurie Halse Anderson
I think anorexia is a metaphor. It is a young woman's statement that she will become what the culture asks of its women, which is… — Mary Pipher
And, what's more, this 'precious' body, the very same that is hooted and honked at, demeaned both in daily life as well as in ever… — Emilie Autumn
The only number that would ever be enough is 0. Zero pounds, zero life, size zero, double-zero, zero point. Zero in tennis is love. I… — Laurie Halse Anderson
It's like, at the end, there's this surprise quiz: Am I proud of me? I gave my life to become the person I am right… — Richard Bach
I want to go to sleep and not wake up, but I don't want to die. I want to eat like a normal person eats,… — Laurie Halse Anderson
I finally understood that by being on a perpetual diet, I had practiced a "disordered" form of eating my whole life. I restricted when I… — Portia de Rossi
Every woman knows that, regardless of all her other achievements, she is a failure if she is not beautiful. — Germaine Greer
Girls developed eating disorders when our culture developed a standard of beauty that they couldn't obtain by being healthy. When unnatural thinness became attractive, girls… — Mary Pipher
Violence is spiritual junk food, and boredom is spiritual anorexia. — Peter Kreeft
And dieting, I discovered, was another form of disordered eating, just as anorexia and bulimia similarly disrupt the natural order of eating. "Ordered" eating is… — Portia de Rossi
If by that you mean that I dislike celebrity magazines, prefer food to anorexia, refuse to watch TV shows about models, and hate the color… — John Green
She ran her hands over her body as if to bid it good-bye. The hipbones rising from a shrunken stomach were razor-sharp. Would they be… — Steven Levenkron
She began to be reassured by these pains, tangible symbols of her success in becoming thinner than anyone else. Her only identity was being "the… — Steven Levenkron
Depression is about anger, it's about anxiety, it's about character and heredity. But it is also about something that is in its way quite unique.… — Unknown Author
It not unusual for women with anorexia to suffer heart attacks. — Carre Otis
Finding a cure for anorexia should be a piece of cake. — Charles Elba

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