Anorexia was my attempt to have control over my body and manipulate my body and starve my body … - Eve Ensler

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A man who says he can see through a woman is missing a lot. -Groucho Marx A man's only as old as the woman he feels.

Eve Ensler

Anorexia was my attempt to have control over my body and manipulate my body and starve my body and shape my body. It was not a very good relationship. It was the sort of relationship my father had to my body. It was a tyrannical, "you'll do what I tell you" relationship.

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