Anorexia Quotes - Page 2

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.

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.

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

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

Anorexia, you starve yourself. Bulimia, you binge and purge. You eat huge amounts of food until you're sick and then you throw up. And anorexia, you just deny yourself. It's about control.

Where do you go to get anorexia?

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.

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

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

I was very obsessed. I mean, I could tell you the fat content and the calorie content in absolutely anything.

I unwittingly became sort of this anorexia spokeswoman.

When I was 19 years old, I came down with anorexia. I had it for about a year before it became public. And it had a lot to do with my self-esteem.

I had a very public battle with anorexia.

I've experienced the tabloids when I had anorexia.

I used to pride myself on being impervious to the sentimentalities of soap opera, but when that loveliest of actresses, Rachel Gurney, of Upstairs, Downstairs, perished on the Titanic, I wept so convulsively and developed such anorexia that I had to be force-fed.

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?

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

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

You will miss her sometimes. Bear in mind she's trying to kill you. Bear in mind you have a life to live.

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

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

Falling, falling, falling, falling down. Look yourself in the eye before you drown.

I don't want to feel I'm responsible for anorexia across the country.

Many women who have anorexia put their hearts in a compromised situation.

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.