Famous Quotes & Sayings

Caroline Knapp

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.

Julia Cameron

Artistic anorexia & sexual avoidance have the same root fears – fear of intimacy, fear of exposure, fear of failure”.

For centuries, we have been under very false stereotypes and misconceptions about what causes anorexia nervosa.

Eric Hoffer

Our credulity is greatest concerning the things we know least about. And since we know least about ourselves, we are ready to believe all that is said about us. Hence the mysterious power of both flattery and calumny.

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.

Jeremy Taylor

Know that you are your greatest enemy, but also your greatest friend.

Genes load the gun, and environment pulls the trigger. These people who are genetically disposed to anorexia nervosa may be more sensitive to those environmental triggers, like dieting after seeing a fashion magazine.

Marianne Faithfull

I was anorexic in the '60s and '70s, although it wasn't called anorexia then. I thought people would be nicer to me if I looked very small and delicate, so food wasn't high on my agenda. But it is now.

Marya Hornbacher

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

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

Marya Hornbacher

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

Marya Hornbacher

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.

Kristen Johnston

I am, uh ... a 6 foot tall woman, I feel like I'm a healthy size, I'm not anorexic; and I feel that people who aren't anorexic are punished ... for not being anorexic.

Marcel Proust

It is often hard to bear the tears that we ourselves have caused.

Keshia Knight Pulliam

I don't understand anorexia; I'm too greedy to ever not eat I just can't do it.

Kate Winslet

A lot of the girls were awful, very catty. It was a competitive environment that I didn't like. You have no idea of the anorexia I saw around me.

Kate Beckinsale

I always felt that anorexia was the form of breakdown most readily available to adolescent girls.

Kate Beckinsale

People keep asking me about it but I don't want to be famous for being a former anorexic.

Kate Moss

Now I'm being blamed not only for anorexia but for lung cancer

Kate Moss

I've been blamed for everything, from smoking to heroin to anorexia.

Karl Lagerfeld

I think it's very important what young people see in pictures or on TV or in magazines. Drugs, violence, anorexia. All of the things that I absolutely do not reference in my photos.

Mary Pipher

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

Mary Pipher

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.

Voltaire

It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.

Sara Evans

I almost lost my best friend to anorexia. I am lending my voice as an entertainer, a mom, and a friend because I want to bring great awareness to this cause.