Best Eating Disorder Sayings

89 Eating Disorder quotes by 62 unique authors

This is the very boring part of eating disorders, the aftermath. When you eat and hate that you eat. And yet of course you must… — Marya Hornbacher
We turn skeletons into goddesses and look to them as if they might teach us how not to need. — Marya Hornbacher
It was always hard work to push through a crowed of reporters with the scent of blood in their nostrils. You might not think so,… — Jeff Lindsay
Society. The same society, I might add, that dictates that little girls should always be sugar and spice and everything nice, which encourages them not… — Sarah Dessen
It is often hard to bear the tears that we ourselves have caused. — Marcel Proust
Do I want to die from the inside out or the outside in? — Laurie Halse Anderson
The stuffing/puking/stuffing/puking/stuffing/puking didn't make her skinny, it made her cry. — Laurie Halse Anderson
He doesn't see my breasts or my waist or my hips. He only sees the nightmare. — Laurie Halse Anderson
I breathe in slowly. Food is life. I exhale, take another breath. Food is life. And that's the problem. When you're alive, people can hurt… — 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
• Eating disorders are addictions. You become addicted to a number of their effects. The two most basic and important: the pure adrenaline that kicks… — Marya Hornbacher
The fact is that Chinese parents can do things that would seem unimaginable-even legally actionable-to Westerners. Chinese mothers can say to their daughters, "Hey fatty-lose… — Amy Chua
A cultural fixation on female thinness is not an obsession about female beauty but an obsession about female obedience. — Naomi Wolf
To lose confidence in one’s body is to lose confidence in oneself. — Simone de Beauvoir
People with eating disorders tend to be very diametrical thinkers – everything is the end of the world, everything rides on this one thing, and… — Marya Hornbacher
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
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 body in silence,… — Marya Hornbacher
Some people who are obsessed with food become gourmet chefs. Others become eating disorders. — Marya Hornbacher
If you trade your authenticity for safety, you may experience the following: anxiety, depression, eating disorders, addiction, rage, blame, resentment, and inexplicable grief. — BrenÃ© Brown
Eating disorders are serious mental illnesses, not lifestyle choices. — Demi Lovato
I don't think people realize, when they're just getting started on an eating disorder or even when they're in the grip of one, that it… — Marya Hornbacher
In that six months, so much happened that death seemed, primarily, inconvenient. The trial period was extended. I seem to keep extending it. There are… — Marya Hornbacher
It’s like he has this power over me—like I have an eating disorder and he’s a package of Oreo Double Stuff cookies. — Christopher Moore
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
We live in a world where most people still subscribe to the belief that shame is a good tool for keeping people in line. Not… — BrenÃ© Brown

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