Anorexia Quotes - Page 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

  Addiction, Political, Body

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• 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

  Responsibility, Media, Ridiculous

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

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

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Cancer, Wish, Hell

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2014). “Wintergirls”, p.32, Scholastic UK

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• Anorexics never have boyfriends. ... That's one way to know you don't have anorexia, if you have a boyfriend.

  Ann Coulter

  Way, Knows, Ifs

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• From the newsstands a dozen models smiled up at her from a dozen magazine covers, smiled in thin-faced, high-cheekboned agreement to Kessa's new discovery. They knew the secret too. They knew thin was good, thin was strong; thin was safe.

  Steven Levenkron

  Strong, Discovery, Agreement

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• 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

  Cancer, Men, Eating Disorder

  Susan Bordo (2004). “Unbearable Weight: Feminism, Western Culture, and the Body”, p.53, Univ of California Press

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• 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

  Self Worth, Issues, Eating Disorder

  Susan Bordo (2004). “Unbearable Weight: Feminism, Western Culture, and the Body”, p.57, Univ of California Press

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

  Victoria Beckham

  Mean, Obsessed, Fats

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• I've got a lot of experience with anorexia - my grandmother and great-grandmother suffered from it, and I had a lot of friends at school who suffered from it. I know it's not something to be taken lightly and I don't.

  Keira Knightley

  Taken, School, Grandmother

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• 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

  Cartoon, Flesh, Hips

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• 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

  Live Life, Soul, Matter

  Geneen Roth (2011). “Women Food and God: An Unexpected Path to Almost Everything”, p.42, Simon and Schuster

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• For years, I had used these fractured men to justify my cynicism and workaholism, and the grief, insomnia and casual anorexia were no longer of any interest to me.

  Antonella Gambotto-Burke

  Grief, Insomnia, Men

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• I didn't think I was fat. I just thought I didn't need to gain any weight. But I would drop weight and then I would be comfortable with that number. Then I would lose more weight and that would become my new number.

  Tracey Gold

  Thinking, Numbers, Would Be

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