Marti Noxon Quotes

I know how this feels: the tightening of the chest, the panic, the what-have-I-done-wait-I-was-kidding. Eating disorders linger so long undetected, eroding the body in silence, and then they strike. The secret is out. You're dying.

I was 17 when my body started changing, and I worried about what I did wrong. I went through a period where I didn't eat at all. I also had someone who was encouraging me to take diet pills. I pushed myself to the extreme because I woke up one day and had hips - and a butt - and thought, 'Oh my gosh, I'm getting fat!'

Eating disorders, body dysmorphia and a general dissatisfaction with one's life and body seems to ail too many young people.

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

I must be an anorexic because an anorexic looks in the mirror and sees a fat person.

I don't believe you have to have eating disorders and mental illness to screw up.

Food can become such a point of anxiety - not because it's food, but just because you have anxiety. That's how eating disorders develop.

We think of bulimia and anorexia as either a bizarre psychosis, or as a quirky little habit, a phase, or as a thing that women just do. We forget that it is a violent act, that it bespeaks a profound level of anger toward and fear of the self.

I mean, we all know the dangers of starving, but bulimia? That can't be that bad. It's only bad when you get really thin. Who worries about bulimics? They're just gross.

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.

I was bulimic and anorexic for a while, just hating my body. As an actress, I was never thin enough, never pretty enough. My boobs weren't big enough.

Anorexia and bulimia seem to be getting much more common in boys, men, and women of all ages and socioeconomic backgrounds; they are also becoming more common in racial groups previously thought to be impervious to the problem.

I don't understand anorexia; I'm too greedy to ever not eat... I just can't do it.

The problem with writing a book about bulimia is that whenever you go to the washroom, people think you're throwing up.

I realized I was an anorexic, a bulimic, and a compulsive overeater.

Most dancers have no awareness of how they look; half of them think they're fat. There is anorexia in the ballet world; there are those things.

I was never anorexic, so I was never that skinny. I was never bony-bony. But I remember thinking, I don't want to be this skinny.

Stress is nothing more than a socially acceptable form of mental illness.

The more people talk about eating disorders, the more people get the real story about what they're like.

As a teen, I was both anorexic and bulimic.

Our society's strong emphasis on dieting and self-image can sometimes lead to eating disorders. We know that more than 5 million Americans suffer from eating disorders, most of them young women.

I have permanent damage to my body because I wanted to be thin.

I'm so not into being emaciated.

An eating disorder epidemic suggests that love and disgust are being jointly marketed, as it were; that wherever the proposition might first have come from, the unacceptability of the female body has been disseminated culturally.

I read that book 'Fat is a Feminist Issue', got a bit desperate halfway through and ate it.