The only kind of dignity which is genuine is that which is not diminished by the indifference of others.
We turn skeletons into goddesses and look to them as if they might teach us how not to need.
You deserve the place you have in this world. Do not let the eating disorder take that from you.
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.
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.
It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.
You will miss her sometimes. Bear in mind she's trying to kill you. Bear in mind you have a life to live.
We can always find each other, we girls with secrets.
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.
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.
I wish I had cancer. I will burn in hell for that, but it's true.
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.
Anorexics never have boyfriends. . . . That's one way to know you don't have anorexia, if you have a boyfriend.
Many women who have anorexia put their hearts in a compromised situation.
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.
I've been blamed for everything, from smoking to heroin to anorexia.
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.
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.
We are all primary numbers divisible only by ourselves.
A little bit of anorexia, a little bit of bulimia. I'm not totally OK now but I don't think any woman is.
