Quotes on Anorexia

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.

What you persist in doing gets easier. The task hasn't changed, but your ability to do it has increased.

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.

Every woman knows that, regardless of all her other achievements, she is a failure if she is not beautiful.

Instead of announcing what you are about to tell is interesting, make it so.

It's like, at the end, there's this surprise quiz: Am I proud of me? I gave my life to become the person I am right now. Was it worth what I paid?

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

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.

The promises of this world are, for the most part, vain phantoms; and to confide in one's self, and become something of worth and value is the best and safest course.

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.

Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.

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

Self-love is the greatest of all flatterers.

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.