#disorder

The last thing the consumer index wants men and women to do is to figure out how to love one another: The $1.5 trillion retail-sales industry depends on sexual estrangement between men and women, and is fueled by sexual dissatisfaction. Ads do not sell sex--that would be counterproductive, if it meant that heterosexual women and men turned to one another and were gratified. What they sell is sexual discontent. ↗

— Naomi Wolf

#eating-disorders #feminism #self-esteem #society #beauty

I'm shy, but I'm not clinically shy. I don't have social anxiety disorder or anything like that. I more have a gentle shyness. Like, I have a little trouble mingling at parties. ↗

— Samantha Bee

#anything #disorder #gentle #i #like

In a disordered mind, as in a disordered body, soundness of health is impossible. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#disordered #health #impossible #mind #soundness

You know you've got problems when your head is hanging over the toilet, puking up your dinner, and what you're thinking of is your dad. And how he thinks you're not pretty. ↗

— Teresa Lo

#body-image #bulimia #eating-disorder #teen #beauty

Perfectly ordered disorder designed with a helter-skelter magnificence. ↗

— Emily Carr

#disorder #magnificence #ordered #perfectly

For disorder obstructs: besides, it doth disgust life, distract the appetities, and yield no true relish to the senses. ↗

— Margaret Cavendish

#disgust #disorder #distract #doth #life

Let's call a spade a spade - a lot of times when you are a vegetarian it is a just not very effective eating disorder. ↗

— Lena Dunham

#disorder #eating #effective #just #lot

I kinda have the opposite of ADD. I have a hyper-focused disorder, where if there's a given task in front of me I really concentrate on that. ↗

— Jared Leto

#concentrate #disorder #front #given #i

Now, bipolar disorder, it goes on a spectrum. There's very severe conditions of it and there are milder ones. I'm lucky enough that it's reasonably mild in my case. ↗

— Stephen Fry

#case #conditions #disorder #enough #goes

When we violate the law ourselves, whatever short-term advantage may be gained, we are obviously encouraging others to violate the law; we thus encourage disorder and instability and thereby do incalculable damage to our own long-term interests. ↗

— J. William Fulbright

#damage #disorder #encourage #encouraging #gained