#disorders

No picture of a woman goes unretouched...even a well-known (older) woman who does not want to be retouched...we still persist in trying to make her look like she’s in her fifties. ↗

— Bob Ciano

#body-image #diet-industry #eating-disorders #fashion-industry #self-esteem

A cultural fixation on female thinness is not an obsession about female beauty but an obsession about female obedience. ↗

— Naomi Wolf

#body-image #culture #eating-disorders #images #society

The same concept of freedom held by the woman who embraces the Western secular identity who feels that she has the right to dress how she likes and adopt any image that fits her desires, is also held in the minds of the men who adopt the Western secular identity. The view is that they are free to view and treat a woman in any way that they wish, for their mind and desires are the standards by which they live their life. Indeed, this is the essence of the concept of freedom and the basis of the Western identity. ↗

— Shabaat of Hizb ut-Tahrir

#beauty #body-image #eating-disorders #society #beauty

Love is not enough. It takes courage to grab my father's demon, my own, or - God help me - my child's and strap it down and stop its mad jig; to sit in a row of white rooms filled with pills and clubbed dreamers and shout: stop smiling, shut up; shut up and stop laughing; you're sitting in hell. Stop preaching; stop weeping. You are a manic-depressive, always. your life is larger than most, unimaginable. You're blessed; just admit it and take the damn pill. ↗

— David Lovelace

#love #manic-depression #medication #mental-disorders #courage

Eating is not a crime. It’s not a moral issue. It’s normal. It’s enjoyable. It just is. ↗

— Carrie Arnold

#diet-industry #eating #eating-disorders #self-esteem #society

Do I want to die from the inside out or the outside in? ↗

— Laurie Halse Anderson

#eating

You’re not dead, but you’re not alive, either. You’re a wintergirl, Lia-Lia, caught in between the worlds. You’re a ghost with a beating heart. Soon you’ll cross the border and be with me. I’m so stoked. I miss you wicked. ↗

— Laurie Halse Anderson

#ghost

The anoretic operates under the astounding illusion that she can escape the flesh, and, by association, the realm of emotions. ↗

— Marya Hornbacher

#self-image #escape

Who wants to recover? It took me years to get that tiny. I wasn't sick; I was strong. ↗

— Laurie Halse Anderson

#strong

If I had lady-spider legs, I would weave a sky where the stars lined up. Matresses would be tied down tight to their trucks, bodies would never crash through windshields. The moon would rise above the wine-dark sea and give babies only to maidens and musicians who had prayed long and hard. Lost girls wouldn't need compasses or maps. They would find gingerbread paths to lead them out of the forest and home again. They would never sleep in silver boxes with white velvet sheets, not until they were wrinkled-paper grandmas and ready for the trip. ↗

— Laurie Halse Anderson

#eating-disorders #families #family