Anorexia Quotes

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

  

  Kate Beckinsale
  • Always
  • Adolescent
  • Anorexia

• 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
  • Issues
  • Weight
  • Destructive

• I think anorexia is a metaphor. It is a young woman's statement that she will become what the culture asks of its women, which is that they be thin and nonthreatening. Anorexia signifies that a young woman is so delicate that, like the women of China with their tiny broken feet, she needs a man to shelter and protect her from a world she cannot handle. Anorexic women signal with their bodies "I will take up only a small amount of space. I won't get in the way." They signal "I won't be intimidating or threatening." (Who is afraid of a seventy-pound adult?)

  

  Mary Pipher
  • Up
  • World
  • Women

• 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
  • Idea
  • Girls
  • Awful

• 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
  • Awareness
  • Anorexia

• I think it's very important what young people see in pictures or on TV or in magazines. Drugs, violence, anorexia. All of the things that I absolutely do not reference in my photos.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Important

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

  

  Courteney Cox
  • Country
  • Feel
  • Responsibilities

• Anorexia was there for me before I got into modeling, but because of the arena and the demands, the disease really got out of control for me. It's like being an alcoholic and going and being a bartender.

  

  Carre Otis
  • Disease
  • Modeling
  • Out Of Control

• 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
  • Women
  • Fashion
  • Years

• It not unusual for women with anorexia to suffer heart attacks.

  

  Carre Otis
  • Women
  • Heart Attacks
  • Not Unusual

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

  

  Carre Otis
  • Women
  • Hearts
  • Compromised

• 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
  • Control
  • Relationship
  • Anorexia

• Anorexia is an awful thing, but you get yourself into it, and only you can get yourself out of it.

  

  Celia Imrie
  • Awful
  • Anorexia