Quotes About Anorexia Nervosa

#1. 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.

Thomas Szasz

#2. Deception' is the word I most associate with anorexia and the treachery which comes from falsehood. The illness appears inviting. It would seem to offer something to those unwary or unlucky enough to suffer from it - friendship, a get-out, or a haven - when, in fact, it is a trap.

Carol Lee

#3. Yesterday's dirt and mistakes have moved through me. I am shiny and pink inside, clean. Empty is good. Empty is strong.

Laurie Halse Anderson

#4. It didn't take long for the world to realize that the Shah was an enlightened liberal next to the bloody reactionary regime that followed, and which executed more people in three months than the Shah had done in 30 years.

Alexander Haig

#5. I think what I learned in research is that as Americans, we're very distrustful of anger. We're not sure if we should repress it. The idea that anger is supposed to be controlled is American, and we try to keep it out of our homes.

Koren Zailckas

#6. A gracious heart, a gentle spirit.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#7. Then I took a shower, unlocked the door, and set out on destroying myself.

Emma Woolf

#8. Forgive me for being chipper, but despair is desperately dull.

Marya Hornbacher

#9. When in a state of hunger, one ought not to undertake labor.

Hippocrates

#10. The person who follows the pursuit of reason unflinchingly toward its end will be atheistic or, at best, agnostic.

William Lane Craig

#11. I am such a sap when it comes to love! I believe in love at first sight all the way. But that's just the way it happened to me with my relationships. I love the idea of two people looking at each other and electricity flying around them; it's so romantic, and it's a great feeling.

Kim Barnouin

#12. Despair is the damp of hell, as joy is the serenity of heaven.

John Donne

#13. She was afraid of losing her shape, spreading out, not being able to contain herself any longer, beginning (that would be worst of all) to talk a lot, to tell everybody, to cry.

Margaret Atwood

#14. It is the gift of seeing the life around them clearly and vividly, as something that is exciting in its own right. It is an innate gift, varying in intensity with the individual's temperament and environment.

Bill Brandt

#15. The reasons for Emma's illness and for her decision to allow life in, rather than die, are intertwined and involve the beginnings of her feelings of belonging, of safety and of competence to be in the world.

Carol Lee

#16. Ask Bill [Gates] why the string in function 9 is terminated by a dollar sign. Ask him, because he can't answer, only I know that.

Gary Kildall

#17. Emma says her illness was a kind of self-hypnosis which obliterated the outside world, a way of escaping life and reducing its proportions to what she could manage.

Carol Lee

#18. Since the days of Greece and Rome, when the word 'citizen' was a title of honor, we have often seen more emphasis put on the rights of citizenship than on its responsibilities.

Robert Kennedy

#19. I only had the right to sit in the shadows of the world,in complete silence. Whether I was laughed at, or told I was discusting, or thought of as unpleasant I would sit in the shadows.

Novala Takemoto

#20. He's going to think I tried too had."
"He's going to be too busy looking at you to think of anything.

Myra McEntire