Quotes about Eating disorder

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If you think my waistline defines my worth, you are not worth my time anyways. — Maria Elena, Eternal Youth
Counting calories is not the answer, because eating is not the problem. — Anita Johnston, Eating in the Light of the Moon: How Women Can Transform Their Relationship with Food Through Myths, Metaphors, and Storytelling
Every human body has its optimum weight and contour, which only health and efficiency can establish. Whenever we treat w — Germaine Greer, The Female Eunuch
Even the models we see in magazines wish they could look like their own images. — Cheri K. Erdman
Eating is not a crime. It’s not a moral issue. It’s normal. It’s enjoyable. It just is. — Carrie Arnold
To ask women to become unnaturally thin is to ask them to relinquish their sexuality. — Naomi Wolf
From the newsstands a dozen models smiled up at her from a dozen magazine covers, smiled in thin-faced, high-cheekboned — Steven Levenkron, The Best Little Girl in the World
A bulimic person's shame may lead her to try to hide not only her eating-disorder behaviors but also her basic needs and — Sheila M. Reindl, Sensing the Self: Women's Recovery from Bulimia
A bulimic person may be so disconnected from her experience that she does not even know what she needs or wants. If she — Sheila M. Reindl, Sensing the Self: Women's Recovery from Bulimia
Yet because her needs and yearnings are real and pressing, she must find some way to express them: she puts into body wh — Sheila M. Reindl, Sensing the Self: Women's Recovery from Bulimia
Pierre Janet, a French professor of psychology who became prominent in the early twentieth century, attempted to fully c — Michelle Stacey, The Fasting Girl: A True Victorian Medical Mystery
The physical shape of Mollies paralyses and contortions fit the pattern of late-nineteenth-century hysteria as well — in — Michelle Stacey, The Fasting Girl: A True Victorian Medical Mystery
Chronic trauma (according to the meaning I propose) that occurs early in life has profound effects on personality develo — Elizabeth F. Howell, The Dissociative Mind
Maybe we choose to stay in a constant state of ignorance as a protective instinct — maybe I was just in denial. I just d — Piper Caleb, Shattered Perfection: The Diary of an Eating Disordered Mind
I need to make myself strong on the inside instead of what is on the outside. I know all of this, but why can’t I put an — Piper Caleb, Shattered Perfection: The Diary of an Eating Disordered Mind
Eating was hard.Breathing was hard. Living was hardest. — Laurie Halse Anderson, Wintergirls
The leap of faith is this: You have to believe, or at least pretend you believe until you really believe it, that you ar — Marya Hornbacher, Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia
You have a history of starving yourself," he says gently.I lift my head. I meet his gaze. "I have a history that I don't — Stephanie Kuehn, Charm & Strange
There’s a weight in the room now, a remembrance of childhood. It sinks like a stone, or a heart, or my weight on a good — Kris Kidd, Split Lips: Stories About Love & Sex
I've come to realize that hunger feels more like home than any tangible structure ever has, or probably ever will. I kno — Kris Kidd