Anorexia Quotes - Page 3

• I've gone through stages where I hate my body so much that I won't even wear shorts and a bra in my house because if I pass a mirror, that's the end of my day.

  Fiona Apple

  Hate, Mirrors, House

  "New Again: Fiona Apple". Interview with Colleen Kelsey and Tracey Pepper, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 28, 2012.

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• Anorexia taught me to love life and to realise that starving yourself to death is a bloody waste of time. It's awful and it hurts so many people around you. It's a terribly selfish thing to do.

  Celia Imrie

  Hurt, Selfish, Love Life

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• Self-love is the greatest of all flatterers.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Love, Self, Eating Disorder

  "The Moral Maxims and Reflections". Book by François de La Rochefoucauld. Maxim 2, 1678.

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• If by that you mean that I dislike celebrity magazines, prefer food to anorexia, refuse to watch TV shows about models, and hate the color pink, then yes. I am proud to be not really a girl.

  John Green

  Girl, Hate, Mean

  John Green, Lauren Myracle, Maureen Johnson (2009). “Let It Snow: Three Holiday Stories”, p.91, Penguin

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• And dieting, I discovered, was another form of disordered eating, just as anorexia and bulimia similarly disrupt the natural order of eating. "Ordered" eating is the practice of eating when you are hungry and ceasing to eat when your brain sends the signal that your stomach is full. ... All people who live their lives on a diet are suffering. If you can accept your natural body weight and not force it to beneath your body's natural, healthy weight, then you can live your life free of dieting, of restriction, of feeling guilty every time you eat a slice of your kid's birthday cake.

  Portia de Rossi

  Food, Kids, Body Weight

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• Violence is spiritual junk food, and boredom is spiritual anorexia.

  Peter Kreeft

  Spiritual, Boredom, Junk

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

  Julia Cameron

  Roots, Artistic, Fear Of Failure

  Julia Cameron (2013). “The Vein of Gold: A Journey to Your Creative Heart”, p.257, Souvenir Press

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• And, what's more, this 'precious' body, the very same that is hooted and honked at, demeaned both in daily life as well as in ever existing form of media, harrassed, molested, raped, and, if all that wasn't enough, is forever poked and prodded and weighed and constantly wrong for eating too much, eating too little, a million details which all point to the solitary girl, to EVERY solitary girl, and say: Destroy yourself.

  Emilie Autumn

  Girl, Media, Forever

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• Who wants to recover? It took me years to get that tiny. I wasn't sick; I was strong.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Strong, Years, Sick

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2014). “Wintergirls”, p.33, Scholastic UK

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

  Marya Hornbacher

  Flesh, Association, Emotion

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• 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 Winslet

  Girl, Ideas, Awful

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• 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

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• The future depends on what we do in the present.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Success, Peace

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• In my own mind, I am still a fat brunette from Toledo, and I always will be.

  Gloria Steinem

  Mind, Toledo, Brunette

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• Depression is about anger, it's about anxiety, it's about character and heredity. But it is also about something that is in its way quite unique. It is the illness of identity, it is the illness of those who do not know where they fit, who lose faith in the myths they have so painstakingly created for themselves. It is a plague - especially if you add in its various forms of expression, like alcoholism, anorexia, bulimia, drug addiction, compulsive behavior of one kind or another. They're all the same things: attempts to avoid disappearance, or nothingness, or chaos.

  Tim Lott

  Depression, Character, Unique

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• Faith sees the invisible, believes the unbelievable, and receives the impossible.

  Corrie Ten Boom

  Life, Motivational, Faith

  Corrie Ten Boom (1985). “Jesus is Victor”, Fleming H Revell Company

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• Confidence comes not from always being right but from not
  fearing to be wrong.

  Peter McIntyre

  Motivational, Positive, Confidence

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• I was right not to be afraid of any thief but myself, who will end by leaving me nothing.

  Katherine Anne Porter

  Self, Leaving, Eating Disorder

  Katherine Anne Porter (2014). “Flowering Judas and Other Stories: A Library of America eBook Classic”, p.81, Library of America

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• Man is never alone. Acknowledged or unacknowledged, that which dreams through him is always there to support him from within.

  Laurens van der Post

  Dream, Men, Self

  Laurens Van Der Post (1994). “Feather Fall: An Anthology”, Hodder & Stoughton

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• I think my anorexia was to do with being a teenager, not being in films.

  Christina Ricci

  Teenager, Thinking, Film

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• Eating disorders are like a gun that's formed by genetics, loaded by a culture and family ideals, and triggered by unbearable distress.

  Aimee Liu

  Gun, Eating Disorder, Culture

  Aimee Liu (2011). “Restoring Our Bodies, Reclaiming Our Lives: Guidance and Reflections on Recovery from Eating Disorders”, p.4, Shambhala Publications

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• For many years, I struggled with how I felt about myself. I hid and harbored very self-destructive eating issues, namely anorexia, which at its worst caused me to lose half of my hair and brought my weight down dramatically.

  Renee Olstead

  Hair, Self, Years

  "My Life Before ‘Secret Life’" by Renee Olstead, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 19, 2012.

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

  Keshia Knight Pulliam

  Greedy

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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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• 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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