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Eating Disorder Quotes by Marya Hornbacher
- You will miss her sometimes. Bear in mind she's trying to kill you. Bear in mind you have a life to live.
- Recovery isn’t easy, at first. It takes time. It takes more work, sometimes, than you think you’re willing to do. But it is worth every…
- It is not a sudden leap from sick to well. It is a slow, strange meander from sick to mostly well. The misconception that eating…
- Bear in mind, people with eating disorders tend to be both competitive and intelligent. We are incredibly perfectionistic. We often excel in school,athletics,artistic pursuits. We…
- 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…
- We turn skeletons into goddesses and look to them as if they might teach us how not to need.
- • Eating disorders are addictions. You become addicted to a number of their effects. The two most basic and important: the pure adrenaline that kicks…
- People with eating disorders tend to be very diametrical thinkers – everything is the end of the world, everything rides on this one thing, and…
- 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,…
- Some people who are obsessed with food become gourmet chefs. Others become eating disorders.
- 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…
- 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…
More Eating Disorder Quotes
- Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery. — Matthew Arnold
- I don't believe you have to have eating disorders and mental illness to screw up. — Kirstie Alley
- Part of treatment for drugs and alcohol is you abstain from these, but with eating disorders you can't abstain from food so… — Carre Otis
- My words of encouragement for teen girls suffering with eating disorders, self-harm, anything... is to get help. It's the most important thing… — Demi Lovato
- I wish I could tell every young girl with an eating disorder, or who has harmed herself in any way, that she's… — Demi Lovato
- Red flag of the eating disorder: the muffin. Keep your eye on the ladies with the muffins...and sometimes I'll just eat the… — Janeane Garofalo
- If there is one thing I will never have, it is an eating disorder. I won't have girls -- even if it… — Kate Hudson
- I was like 'No!' I've never had body issues, I've never had an eating disorder. I've never had to go on a… — Ginnifer Goodwin
- An eating disorder is serious and it's a disease, and I don't think you can lightly say that someone has a disease… — Nicole Richie
- Looking to biology to explain the low prevalence of eating disorders among men is like looking to genetics to explain why nonsmokers… — Susan Bordo
- 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… — Susan Bordo
- Our credulity is greatest concerning the things we know least about. And since we know least about ourselves, we are ready to… — Eric Hoffer