A Quote by Shelley Winters

Where do you go to get anorexia?

Shelley Winters

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Shelley Winters
American - Actress
August 18, 1920 - January 14, 2006

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.

Tracey Gold

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

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

Celia Imrie

Anorexia is a self-destructive thing, and you become stubborn, so when people are trying to tell you something, you get it into your head that they're against you, and you're not going to listen.

Jade Thirlwall

I didn't choose to get anorexia. I may have made some childhood-like choices to try to control something. 'I know what I'll do: I'll just not eat.' That was the initial point, but then it spiraled and became a disease - not a choice by any means.

Ginger Zee

You're only popular with anorexia.

Tori Amos

I've experienced the tabloids when I had anorexia.

Tracey Gold

I unwittingly became sort of this anorexia spokeswoman.

Tracey Gold

I had a very public battle with anorexia.

Tracey Gold

I initially decided to speak about my anorexia and bulimia, partly out of a selfish motivation. I felt I had been scrutinised for my weight and thought, 'At least judge and criticise me on the facts.' There was a freedom with that. Now it's out there, and I just get on with life. I'm at peace with things.