Eating Disorders Quotes: top 53 famous quotes about Eating Disorders

Eating Disorders Quotes & Sayings

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He doesn't see my breasts or my waist or my hips. He only sees the nightmare. — Laurie Halse Anderson

To lose confidence in one's body is to lose confidence in oneself. — Simone De Beauvoir

I have a history of eating disorders but, as a mother, you think of being an example to your child. I'm so much more balanced than I was. — Geri Halliwell

So there you have it
my sorry tale. That's how something I though I controlled ended up controlling me. — Sarah Darer Littman

I am the space between my thighs, daylight shining through. — Laurie Halse Anderson

There are a lot of eating disorders in our sport, so I try very hard not to get consumed by all that. — Laura Wilkinson

Some people who are obsessed with food become gourmet chefs. Others become eating disorders. — Marya Hornbacher

Her behaviors turn her psychic pain, which she fears is not legitimate, into physical pain, which is indisputably real. — Sheila M. Reindl

I've memorized the best angles in the bathroom mirror from which to see how badly I've disintegrated. I truly do go from sixty to zero. — Kris Kidd

I drift into the armpits of strangers, tasting their manic salt, and sleep to forget everything. — Laurie Halse Anderson

The stuffing/puking/stuffing/puking/stuffing/puking didn't make her skinny, it made her cry. — Laurie Halse Anderson

I don't believe you have to have eating disorders and mental illness to screw up. — Kirstie Alley

Your lowest moment and life can be your best if you survive it and learn from it — Brian Cuban

Food can become such a point of anxiety - not because it's food, but just because you have anxiety. That's how eating disorders develop. — Vanessa Carlton

I don't need anyone else to distract me from myself anymore,
like I always thought I would. — Charlotte Eriksson

There's a fine line between self-preservation and mummification. — Mik Everett

Eating disorders, body dysmorphia and a general dissatisfaction with one's life and body seems to ail too many young people. — Carre Otis

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

Everybody at Sweet Valley High, even Elizabeth, seemed to forget that there was ever a fat and ugly Robin. But Robin would never forget. — Francine Pascal

It's the soul that's starving, not the body — Shoshana Kobrin

Do I want to die from the inside out or the outside in? — Laurie Halse Anderson

I need to finish this scarf/shawl/blanket thing so I can start something for Emma- a hat, maybe, or a sweater for her stuffed elephant. — Laurie Halse Anderson

Consent to petting isn't consent to penetration. — Kate McGuinness

Eating disorders are serious mental illnesses, not lifestyle choices. — Demi Lovato

The more people talk about eating disorders, the more people get the real story about what they're like. — Scarlett Pomers

Having struggled with food issues and eating disorders myself, particularly when I was younger, I've long been interested in using it within my books. — Jane Green

Even the models we see in magazines wish they could look like their own images. — Cheri K. Erdman

Evidently, women have eating disorders, men have sex addiction. I suppose both share the same obsession: women's bodies. — Neil Strauss

Somewhere I read that anorexia recovery is more painful for the sufferer than actively engaging in the eating disordered behaviours — Nancy Tucker

Eating, drinking, and depression disorders are really thinking disorders. — Byron Katie

If women cannot eat the same food as men, we cannot experience equal status in the community. — Naomi Wolf

Counting calories is not the answer, because eating is not the problem. — Anita Johnston

I suffered from eating disorders when I was just a kid. I did not like me or the way I looked. But back then, you could not tell anyone. — Richard Simmons

How did I get like this? — Laurie Halse Anderson

Being constantly hungry is no life at all. — Emma Woolf

A bag of bones can slip through small cracks in a crowd effortlessly. — Kris Kidd

...painfully curious...about how it feels to fall. — Marya Hornbacher

We are all a collection of lost causes, stashed here so no one has to see just how wounded we are. — Meg Haston

A look of interest, or perhaps doubt, came across his face. "Well," he said, "I'm sure your bulimia was fulfilling some need. — Kathryn Hansen

To ask women to become unnaturally thin is to ask them to relinquish their sexuality. — Naomi Wolf

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 like to talk about. — Stephanie Kuehn

Who wants to recover? It took me years to get that tiny. I wasn't sick; I was strong. — Laurie Halse Anderson

Aging in women is 'unbeautiful' since women grow more powerful with time, and since the links between generations of women must always be broken. — Naomi Wolf

I'm learning how to taste everything. — Laurie Halse Anderson

A cultural fixation on female thinness is not an obsession about female beauty but an obsession about female obedience. — Naomi Wolf

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

One of the most dangerous myths surrounding eating disorders is that they are a life sentence. — Lynn Crilly

No wonder there are so many people with eating disorders.It's like this diet plan is being administered by the Gestapo. — Helen Argiro

The anoretic operates under the astounding illusion that she can escape the flesh, and, by association, the realm of emotions. — Marya Hornbacher

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

Life is much like a piece of cake,
Overeat and you get a stomachache. — Ana Claudia Antunes

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

Eating is not a crime. It's not a moral issue. It's normal. It's enjoyable. It just is. — Carrie Arnold