Doing things Quote by Patrick J. Carnes

Anorexia is a disease that happens to people, mostly women and girls, who have obsessive, perfectionist personalities.

— Crystal Renn

The anorexic is out to prove how little she needs, how little she can survive on; she is out, in a sense, to discredit…

— Rachel Cusk

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…

— Mary Pipher

I used to refer to myself as a 'theoretical anorexic,' just as crazy when it came to body image, but saved by a lack…

— Ayelet Waldman

Artistic anorexia & sexual avoidance have the same root fears – fear of intimacy, fear of exposure, fear of failure”.

— Julia Cameron

Many women who have anorexia put their hearts in a compromised situation.

— Carre Otis

The anorexic is the fuse nakedly exposed to the direct power of modern media, a psyche whose wiring has no insulation. The anorexic is…

— Kenny Smith

There are lots of eating disorders out there. It's not just anorexia.

— Zara McDermott

“Culture alone cannot explain the phenomena of such high rates of eating disorders. Eating disorders are complex, but what they all seem to have…

— Karen A. Duncan

“Anorexia is, without doubt, a serious eating disorder, but there is a hell of a lot of mainstream disordered eating going on out there.”

— Emma Woolf

I don't think just being skinny means necessarily anorexic.

— Carmen Kass

“Eating disorders are prevalent among women who were sexually abused as children. They seem to have components of other symptoms such as obsessions, compulsions,…

— Karen A. Duncan