Too many young girls have eating disorders due to low self-esteem and distorted body image. I think it's so important for girls to love themselves and to treat their bodies respectfully. — Ariana Grande
A cultural fixation on female thinness is not an obsession about female beauty but an obsession about female obedience. — Naomi Wolf
Nothing tastes as good as skinny feels. — Kate Moss
Half the world's starving; the other half is trying to lose weight. — Roseanne Barr
Stop short of your appetite; eat less than you are able. — Ovid
Dieting: A system of starving yourself to death so you can live a little longer. — Jan Murray
FOOD is the most widely abused anti-anxiety drug in America, and EXERCISE is the most potent yet underutilized antidepressant. — Bill Phillips
Fasting gives you confidence to know that your spirit can master appetite . . . and helps to protect against later uncontrolled cravings and gnawing habits. — Russell M. Nelson
When the soul is starved for nourishment, it lets us know with feelings of emptiness, anxiety, or yearning — Menachem Mendel Schneerson
Now I'm being blamed not only for anorexia but for lung cancer. — Kate Moss
Who wants to recover? It took me years to get that tiny. I wasn't sick; I was strong. — Laurie Halse Anderson
I wish I had cancer. I will burn in hell for that, but it's true. — Laurie Halse Anderson
Self love is the instrument of our preservation. — Voltaire
It is often hard to bear the tears that we ourselves have caused. — Marcel Proust
People keep asking me about it but I don't want to be famous for being a former anorexic. — Kate Beckinsale
I've been blamed for everything, from smoking to heroin to anorexia. — Kate Moss
I always felt that anorexia was the form of breakdown most readily available to adolescent girls. — Kate Beckinsale
Violence is spiritual junk food, and boredom is spiritual anorexia. — Peter Kreeft
Where do you go to get anorexia? — Shelley Winters
Anorexia Image Quotes
Eating Disorder Quotes
Faith sees the invisible, believes the unbelievable, and receives the impossible. — Corrie Ten Boom
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 only is this wrong, but it’s dangerous. Shame is highly correlated with addiction, violence, aggression, depression, eating disorders, and bullying. — Brené Brown
I tried to go anorexic for a good three hours. I ate ice and celery, but that’s not even anorexic. And I quit. I was like, 'Ma, can you make me a sandwich? Like, immediately.' — Meghan Trainor
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 you. It's easier to crawl into a bone cage or a snowdrift of confusion. It's easier to lock everybody out. But it's a lie. — Laurie Halse Anderson
Man is never alone. Acknowledged or unacknowledged, that which dreams through him is always there to support him from within. — Laurens van der Post
If you trade your authenticity for safety, you may experience the following: anxiety, depression, eating disorders, addiction, rage, blame, resentment, and inexplicable grief. — Brené Brown
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 hard day, every tear, every terrified moment. It’s worth it, because the trade-off is this: you let go of your eating disorder, and you get back your life. — Marya Hornbacher
Red flag of the eating disorder: the muffin. Keep your eye on the ladies with the muffins... and sometimes I'll just eat the muffin top. — Janeane Garofalo
Binge eating is another eating disorder that people really don't realize is a problem. — Demi Lovato
Looking to biology to explain the low prevalence of eating disorders among men is like looking to genetics to explain why nonsmokers do not get lung cancer as often as smokers. — Susan Bordo
Binge Eating Quotes
No matter what we weigh, those of us who are compulsive eaters have anorexia of the soul. We refuse to take in what sustains us. We live lives of deprivation. And when we can't stand it any longer, we binge. — Geneen Roth
Reading was like eating alone, with that same element of bingeing. — Francine Prose
Anorexia, you starve yourself. Bulimia, you binge and purge. You eat huge amounts of food until you're sick and then you throw up. And anorexia, you just deny yourself. It's about control. — Tracey Gold
I'm on a constant yo-yo of health. I will go a week eating incredibly clean, but then I'll follow that up with a month's worth of binge eating. Then I hit the gym and eat clean, and then I mix it up with core exercises, yoga, Pilates, and sitting on an incline bench while checking my phone. — Josh McDermitt
There are studies that tell us that stress and lack of self-image, lack of self-esteem, severe dieting, binge dieting and binge eating can also be very damaging to a body and bring on various kinds of abnormalities. — Leonard Nimoy
I used to binge-eat and make myself throw up. I was a fat kid. Obviously I didn't quite master the bulimia. — Russell Brand
I try to keep in shape and I always have to check myself. Whenever I binge eat, sweets are the one temptation. — Morris Chestnut
Disciplined governments do not engage in the economic equivalent of binge eating followed by crash dieting. — Peter Blair Henry
Sometimes it's binge eating as a method to handle emotional pain. I'll also write very sporadically - music, lyrics - to identify the problem. There are a few cathartic processes I've alternated randomly. There's no default. Each emotional experience elicits a different, possibly new response. — Brendan Dooling
It's a fairly accurate portrait of me at eighteen, minus a few quirks like reckless driving and eating binges. It's accurate but it isn't profound. — Susanna Kaysen
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 mirror that doesn't matter anymore. — Laurie Halse Anderson
Anorexia and bulimia seem to be getting much more common in boys, men, and women of all ages and socioeconomic backgrounds; they are also becoming more common in racial groups previously thought to be impervious to the problem. — Marya Hornbacher
Addiction, obesity, starvation (anorexia nervosa) are political problems, not psychiatric: each condenses and expresses a contest between the individual and some other person or persons in his environment over the control of the individual's body. — Thomas Szasz
Every woman knows that, regardless of all her other achievements, she is a failure if she is not beautiful. — Germaine Greer
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 bodies; eating disorders, far from being 'bizarre' and anomalous, are utterly continuous with a dominant element of the experience of being female in this culture. — Susan Bordo
A little bit of anorexia, a little bit of bulimia. I'm not totally OK now but I don't think any woman is. — Amy Winehouse
I was a scapegoat. The media had to put responsibility on somebody, and I was chosen. They felt free to say that because someone was thin they were anorexic, which is ridiculous. — Kate Moss
We think of bulimia and anorexia as either a bizarre psychosis, or as a quirky little habit, a phase, or as a thing that women just do. We forget that it is a violent act, that it bespeaks a profound level of anger toward and fear of the self. — Marya Hornbacher
I did extensive research on media and anorexia and found out that the fashion magazines are to blame in a way. They project an image of a woman that is completely absurd, but girls and women believe they should be very skinny. They don't look like real woman anymore. — Oliviero Toscani
Plastic surgery is distressingly popular and I feel that the fashion industry has killed tens of thousands of women over the years from anorexia. — Nan Goldin
We have nothing to lose by trusting the infinite power of the Self, except the bondage of our own ignorance. — Mata Amritanandamayi
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 finally get it. — Laurie Halse Anderson
I don't want to feel I'm responsible for anorexia across the country. — Courteney Cox
For the longest time, Indian women have been okay with being curvy. But I think the modern Indian woman needs to get toned. I don't endorse being thin. Anorexia and bulimia are a reality in India because everybody wants to be thin. — Bipasha Basu
I almost lost my best friend to anorexia. I am lending my voice as an entertainer, a mom, and a friend because I want to bring great awareness to this cause. — Sara Evans
Eating disorders are like a gun that's formed by genetics, loaded by a culture and family ideals, and triggered by unbearable distress. — Aimee Liu
In Hollywood, I'm obese. I'm considered a fat actress. I eat like a caveman. I'll be the only actress that doesn't have anorexia rumors! I'm never going to starve myself for a part. I'm invincible. I don't want little girls to be like "Oh, I want to look like Katniss, so I'm going to skip dinner!" — Jennifer Lawrence
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 skinniest." She had to feel it. — Steven Levenkron
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 a lot to do with my self-esteem. — Tracey Gold
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 did unnatural things to be thin. — Mary Pipher
I had a very public battle with anorexia. — Tracey Gold
I unwittingly became sort of this anorexia spokeswoman. — Tracey Gold
I've experienced the tabloids when I had anorexia. — Tracey Gold
I think it's obscene that many people are starving to death from anorexia. It's been said many times, it's trite. But when so much evil is going on against, for example the Afghani people, where women are being so oppressed that a woman's body is a battlefield. — Nan Goldin
I used to pride myself on being impervious to the sentimentalities of soap opera, but when that loveliest of actresses, Rachel Gurney, of Upstairs, Downstairs, perished on the Titanic, I wept so convulsively and developed such anorexia that I had to be force-fed. — S. J. Perelman
You will miss her sometimes. Bear in mind she's trying to kill you. Bear in mind you have a life to live. — Marya Hornbacher
Falling, falling, falling, falling down. Look yourself in the eye before you drown. — Emily Saliers
[The press] said to me yesterday 'How does it feel to be called anorexic?' and I had no idea that I was. I'm not saying there aren't people in the film industry that suffer from it, because I am sure that there are. But I'm quite sure I don't have it. — Keira Knightley
On her extreme thinness during her 'Ally McBeal' years: "I started under-eating, over-exercising, pushing myself too hard and brutalizing my immune system. I guess I just didn't find time to eat. I am much more healthy these days. — Calista Flockhart
I was very obsessed. I mean, I could tell you the fat content and the calorie content in absolutely anything. — Victoria Beckham
Anorexia taught me to love life and to realise that starving yourself to death is a bloody waste of time. It's awful and it hurts so many people around you. It's a terribly selfish thing to do. — Celia Imrie
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