Anorexia Quotes

Now I'm being blamed not only for anorexia but for lung cancer.

In my own mind, I am still a fat brunette from Toledo, and I always will be.

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.

We are all primary numbers divisible only by ourselves.

Addiction, obesity, starvation (anorexia nervosa) are political problems, not psychiatric: each condense and expresses a contest between the individual and some other person or persons in his environment over the control of the individual's body.

Anorexia was there for me before I got into modeling, but because of the arena and the demands, the disease really got out of control for me. It's like being an alcoholic and going and being a bartender.

It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.

The only kind of dignity which is genuine is that which is not diminished by the indifference of others.

Self-love is the greatest of all flatterers.

Self love is the instrument of our preservation.

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.

A little bit of anorexia, a little bit of bulimia. I'm not totally OK now but I don't think any woman is.

I wish I had cancer. I will burn in hell for that, but it's true.

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.

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.

It is often hard to bear the tears that we ourselves have caused.

People keep asking me about it but I don't want to be famous for being a former anorexic.

I was anorexic in the 60s and 70s, although it wasn't called anorexia then. I thought people would be nicer to me if I looked very small and delicate, so food wasn't high on my agenda. But it is now.

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.

I've been blamed for everything, from smoking to heroin to anorexia.

Plastic surgery is distressingly popular and I feel that the fashion industry has killed tens of thousands of women over the years from anorexia.

Anorexia is a response to cultural images of the female body - waiflike, angular - that both capitulates to the ideal and also mocks it, strips away all the ancillary signs of sexuality, strips away breasts and hips and butt and leaves in their place a garish caricature, a cruel cartoon of flesh and bone.

Violence is spiritual junk food, and boredom is spiritual anorexia.

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.

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.

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.

We have nothing to lose by trusting the infinite power of the Self, except the bondage of our own ignorance.

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.

Eating disorders are like a gun that's formed by genetics, loaded by a culture and family ideals, and triggered by unbearable distress.

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.

I am, uh ... a 6 foot tall woman, I feel like I'm a healthy size, I'm not anorexic; and I feel that people who aren't anorexic are punished ... for not being anorexic.

Where do you go to get anorexia?

I always felt that anorexia was the form of breakdown most readily available to adolescent girls.

I've experienced the tabloids when I had anorexia.

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.

I was right not to be afraid of any thief but myself, who will end by leaving me nothing.

I don't want to feel I'm responsible for anorexia across the country.

I unwittingly became sort of this anorexia spokeswoman.

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.

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.

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

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 now. Was it worth what I paid?

I had a very public battle with anorexia.

You will miss her sometimes. Bear in mind she's trying to kill you. Bear in mind you have a life to live.

Know that you are your greatest enemy, but also your greatest friend.

Falling, falling, falling, falling down. Look yourself in the eye before you drown.

I was very obsessed. I mean, I could tell you the fat content and the calorie content in absolutely anything.

We turn skeletons into goddesses and look to them as if they might teach us how not to need.

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

What you persist in doing gets easier. The task hasn't changed, but your ability to do it has increased.