Anorexia Quotes - Page 2

• 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

  Self, Eating Disorder, Proud

  "One". Book by Richard Bach, 1988.

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• 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

  Missing, Mind, Eating Disorder

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• Where do you go to get anorexia?

  Shelley Winters

  Inspiring, Food, Cooking

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

  Courteney Cox

  Country, Want, Responsible

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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

  Demand, Disease, Arena

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

  Carre Otis

  Heart, Situation

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• 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

  Self Esteem, Years, Self

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• I've experienced the tabloids when I had anorexia.

  Tracey Gold

  Tabloids

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• 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

  Girl, Hate, Katniss

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I think anorexia is a metaphor. It is a young woman's statement that she will become what the culture asks of its women, which is that they be thin and nonthreatening. Anorexia signifies that a young woman is so delicate that, like the women of China with their tiny broken feet, she needs a man to shelter and protect her from a world she cannot handle. Anorexic women signal with their bodies "I will take up only a small amount of space. I won't get in the way." They signal "I won't be intimidating or threatening." (Who is afraid of a seventy-pound adult?)

  Mary Pipher

  Men, Thinking, Feet

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• 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

  Thinking, Psychosis, Violent Acts

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• We can always find each other, we girls with secrets.

  Crystal Renn

  Girl, Secret

  Crystal Renn, Marjorie Ingall (2009). “Hungry: A Young Model's Story of Appetite, Ambition and the Ultimate Embrace of Curves”, p.67, Simon and Schuster

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• 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

  Girl, Healthy, Eating Disorder

  Mary Pipher (2005). “Reviving Ophelia”, p.165, Penguin

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• In New York, if you weigh under 200 pounds and decline so much as a cookie at a co-worker's party, women will flock to your side, assuring you of your appealing physique. This is how skittish we are about the dangers of anorexia and the pressures of body image.

  Sloane Crosley

  New York, Party, Your Side

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• Anorexia is an awful thing, but you get yourself into it, and only you can get yourself out of it.

  Celia Imrie

  Awful

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• You're only popular with anorexia.

  Tori Amos

  Art, Media, Entertainment

  Song: Jackie's Strength, Album: From the Choirgirl Hotel, 1998

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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

  Pride, Television, Opera

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• [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

  Ideas, Yesterday, People

  "Keira Knightley Dismisses Weight Criticism" by Katie Pisa, Stephen M. Silverman, people.com. July 4, 2006.

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• In all the years I've been a therapist, I've yet to meet one girl who likes her body.

  Mary Pipher

  Girl, Years, Body

  Mary Pipher (2005). “Reviving Ophelia”, p.165, Penguin

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• I would eat 300 calories a day - a lot of Jell-O and no-sugar everything, of course. I was doing Pilates, weight-training, circuit training; over lunch I would run on a treadmill in my dressing room with a fan on my face so I wouldn't sweat my makeup off.

  Portia de Rossi

  Running, Makeup, Sweat

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• 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

  Boys, Men, Age

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• I had been on this insane diet for almost 17 years to maintain the weight that was demanded of me when I was modeling. My diet was really starvation. I am not naturally that thin.

  Carre Otis

  Years, Insane, Weight

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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

  Eating Disorder, Tasks, Easier

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• I finally understood that by being on a perpetual diet, I had practiced a "disordered" form of eating my whole life. I restricted when I was hungry and in need of nutrition and binged when I was so grotesquely full I couldn't be comfortable in any position by lying down. Diets that tell people what to eat or when to eat are the practices inbetween. And dieting, I discovered, was another form of disordered eating, just as anorexia and bulimia similarly disrupt the natural order of eating.

  Portia de Rossi

  Lying, Order, Practice

  Portia de Rossi (2011). “Unbearable Lightness: A Story of Loss and Gain”, p.244, Simon and Schuster

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• Anorexia is such a self-consuming, selfish disease. It's all about you. Becoming a mother, all of a sudden it wasn't about me anymore.

  Tracey Gold

  Mother, Selfish, Disease

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