Anorexia Quotes - Page 4

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

  Kate Beckinsale

  People, Asking, Want

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• On her extreme thinness during her 'Ally McBeal' years: "I started under-eating, over-exercising, pushing myself too hard and brutalizing my immune system. I guess I just didn't find time to eat. I am much more healthy these days.

  Calista Flockhart

  Exercise, Years, Healthy

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• 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.

  Eve Ensler

  Father, Good Relationship, Body

  "The Big Idea: Eve Ensler". Interview with Suzanne Koven, therumpus.net. June 12, 2013.

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• You know you've got problems when your head is hanging over the toilet, puking up your dinner, and what you're thinking of is your dad. And how he thinks you're not pretty.

  Teresa Lo

  Dad, Thinking, Toilets

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• A little bit of anorexia, a little bit of bulimia. I'm not totally OK now but I don't think any woman is.

  Amy Winehouse

  Thinking, Littles, Bulimia

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

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• You deserve the place you have in this world. Do not let the eating disorder take that from you.

  Rae Smith

  Eating Disorder, World, Deserve

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• Plastic surgery is distressingly popular and I feel that the fashion industry has killed tens of thousands of women over the years from anorexia.

  Nan Goldin

  Fashion, Years, Plastic

  Source: foggysapphires.wordpress.com

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• 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.

  Bipasha Basu

  Reality, Thinking, India

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

  Kate Moss

  Smoking, Heroin

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• Anorexia is a disease that happens to people, mostly women and girls, who have obsessive, perfectionist personalities.

  Crystal Renn

  Girl, People, Personality

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Besides, I'd heard too many Karen Carpenter tales at Gladstone PTA meetings, and they often took the form of boasts. The prestigious diagnosis of anorexia seemed much coveted not only by the students but by their mothers, who would compete over whose daughter ate less. No wonder the poor girls were a mess.

  Lionel Shriver

  Girl, Daughter, Mother

  Lionel Shriver (2011). “We Need to Talk about Kevin”, p.301, Counterpoint Press

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• I wanted to make a film about anorexia. I thought about it for a long time, but then gave up on this idea as I felt that this theme would be so hermetic and closed that it would not reach an audience. However, the plot about the character of Olga and the idea that a body has a lot of different meanings were still present in my mind.

  Malgorzata Szumowska

  Character, Ideas, Long

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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

  Jeremy Taylor

  Enemy, Eating Disorder, Self Awareness

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• Self love is the instrument of our preservation.

  Voltaire

  Love, Self, Eating Disorder

  Voltaire (1824). “A Philosophical Dictionary”, p.73

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• I did extensive research on media and anorexia and found out that the fashion magazines are to blame in a way. They project an image of a woman that is completely absurd, but girls and women believe they should be very skinny. They don't look like real woman anymore.

  Oliviero Toscani

  Girl, Fashion, Real

  Source: valuet.wordpress.com

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• A "snapshot" feature in USA Today listed the five greatest concerns parents and teachers had about children in the '50s: talking out of turn, chewing gum in class, doing homework, stepping out of line, cleaning their rooms. Then it listed the five top concerns of parents today: drug addiction, teenage pregnancy, suicide and homicide, gang violence, anorexia and bulimia. We can also add AIDS, poverty, and homelessness. . . . Between my own childhood and the advent of my motherhood--one short generation--the culture had gone completely mad.

  Mary Blakely

  Suicide, Teacher, Children

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• I think it's obscene that many people are starving to death from anorexia. It's been said many times, it's trite. But when so much evil is going on against, for example the Afghani people, where women are being so oppressed that a woman's body is a battlefield.

  Nan Goldin

  Thinking, People, Evil

  Source: foggysapphires.wordpress.com

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• As far as stimulus from the visual arts specifically, there is today in most of us a visual appetite that is hungry, that is acutely undernourished. One might go so far as to say that Protestants in particular suffer from a form of visual anorexia. It is not that there is a lack of visual stimuli, but rather a lack of wholesomeness of form and content amidst the all-pervasive sensory overload.

  John Walford

  Art, Suffering, Culture

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• We have nothing to lose by trusting the infinite power of the Self, except the bondage of our own ignorance.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Ignorance, Self, Eating Disorder

  Sri Mata Amritanandamayi Devi, Amma (2014). “Unity Is Peace: Interfaith Speech”, p.17, M A Center

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• If we are ready to tear down the walls that confine us, break the cage that imprisons us, we will discover what our wings are for.

  Michael Elmore-Meegan

  Wall, Recovery, Wings

  "All Will be Well". Book by Michael Meegan, 2004.

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• 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.

  Sara Evans

  Mom, Voice, My Best Friend

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• Keep these concepts in mind: You've failed many times, although you don't remember. You fell down the first time you tried to walk. You almost drowned the first time you tried to swim. Don't worry about failure. My suggestion to each of you: Worry about the chances you miss when you don't even try.

  Sherman Glenn Finesilver

  Failure, Recovery, Remember You

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• She began to be reassured by these pains, tangible symbols of her success in becoming thinner than anyone else. Her only identity was being "the skinniest." She had to feel it.

  Steven Levenkron

  Pain, Eating Disorder, Identity

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• We are all primary numbers divisible only by ourselves.

  Jean Guitton

  Self, Numbers, Eating Disorder

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• Remember there are no mistakes, only lessons. Love yourself, trust your choices, and everything is possible

  Cherie Carter-Scott

  Love, Trust, Mistake

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