Steven Levenkron Quotes About Anorexia

• 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

• She ran her hands over her body as if to bid it good-bye. The hipbones rising from a shrunken stomach were razor-sharp. Would they be lost in a sea of fat? She counted her ribs bone by bone. Where would they go?

  Steven Levenkron

  Hands, Sea, Bye

• 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, Anorexia, Eating Disorder

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