1.
Now I'm being blamed not only for anorexia but for lung cancer.
Kate Moss
2.
In my own mind, I am still a fat brunette from Toledo, and I always will be.
Gloria Steinem
3.
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
4.
We are all primary numbers divisible only by ourselves.
Jean Guitton
5.
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.
Thomas Szasz
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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.
Carre Otis
7.
It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.
Voltaire
8.
The only kind of dignity which is genuine is that which is not diminished by the indifference of others.
Dag Hammarskjold
10.
Self love is the instrument of our preservation.
Voltaire
11.
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
12.
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
14.
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
15.
It is often hard to bear the tears that we ourselves have caused.
Marcel Proust
16.
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
17.
People keep asking me about it but I don't want to be famous for being a former anorexic.
Kate Beckinsale
18.
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.
Marianne Faithfull
19.
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
20.
I've been blamed for everything, from smoking to heroin to anorexia.
Kate Moss
21.
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
22.
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
23.
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.
Caroline Knapp
24.
Violence is spiritual junk food, and boredom is spiritual anorexia.
Peter Kreeft
25.
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
26.
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
27.
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
28.
We have nothing to lose by trusting the infinite power of the Self, except the bondage of our own ignorance.
Mata Amritanandamayi
29.
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
31.
I always felt that anorexia was the form of breakdown most readily available to adolescent girls.
Kate Beckinsale
32.
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
33.
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.
Kristen Johnston
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I had a very public battle with anorexia.
Tracey Gold
35.
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
36.
Know that you are your greatest enemy, but also your greatest friend.
Jeremy Taylor
37.
I was very obsessed. I mean, I could tell you the fat content and the calorie content in absolutely anything.
Victoria Beckham
38.
Falling, falling, falling, falling down. Look yourself in the eye before you drown.
Emily Saliers
39.
We turn skeletons into goddesses and look to them as if they might teach us how not to need.
Marya Hornbacher
40.
Artistic anorexia & sexual avoidance have the same root fears – fear of intimacy, fear of exposure, fear of failure”.
Julia Cameron
41.
I've experienced the tabloids when I had anorexia.
Tracey Gold
42.
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
43.
I was right not to be afraid of any thief but myself, who will end by leaving me nothing.
Katherine Anne Porter
44.
I don't want to feel I'm responsible for anorexia across the country.
Courteney Cox
45.
I unwittingly became sort of this anorexia spokeswoman.
Tracey Gold
46.
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
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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
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Many women who have anorexia put their hearts in a compromised situation.
Carre Otis
49.
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?
Richard Bach
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What you persist in doing gets easier. The task hasn't changed, but your ability to do it has increased.
Ralph Waldo Emerson