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    Marya Hornbacher
    “We turn skeletons into goddesses and look to them as if they might teach us how not to need.”
    ― Marya Hornbacher, Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia
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    Laurie Halse Anderson
    “Who wants to recover? It took me years to get that tiny. I wasn't sick; I was strong.”
    ― Laurie Halse Anderson, Wintergirls
    tags: eating-disorders
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    Laurie Halse Anderson
    “I am angry that I starved my brain and that I sat shivering in my bed at night instead of dancing or reading poetry or eating ice cream or kissing a boy...”
    ― Laurie Halse Anderson, Wintergirls
    tags: eating-disorders, recovery
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    Geneen Roth
    “Freedom from obsession is not about something you do; it's about knowing who you are. It's about recognizing what sustains you and what exhausts you. What you love and what you think you love because you believe you can't have it. (p. 163)”
    ― Geneen Roth, Women, Food and God: An Unexpected Path to Almost Everything
    tags: body-image, eating, eating-disorders, health
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  • #5
    I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control
    “I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.”
    ― Marilyn Monroe
    tags: attributed-no-source, best, life, love, misattributed-marilyn-monroe, mistakes, out-of-control, truth, worst
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  • #7
    George Carlin
    “Fighting for peace is like screwing for virginity.”
    ― George Carlin
    tags: fighting, humor, misattributed-george-carlin, peace, sex
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  • #8
    Helen Keller
    “Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.”
    ― Helen Keller
    tags: motivational
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  • #9
    Kamryn Adams
    “A woman who is not happy with herself can never be happy for someone else." -Toyi Ward”
    ― Toyi Ward, Par for the Curse
    tags: self-help, women
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  • #10
    C. JoyBell C.
    “The unhappiest people in this world, are those who care the most about what other people think.”
    ― C. JoyBell C.
    tags: freedom, inspirational, inspirational-attitude, inspirational-quotes, life-and-living, society, unhappiness, unhappy-life
    2461 likes

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  • #11
    Fidel Castro
    “A revolution is not a bed of roses. A revolution is a struggle between the future and the past.”
    ― Fidel Castro
    tags: conflict, revolution, society, time
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    Jean-Jacques Rousseau
    “Everything is good as it comes from the hands of the Maker of the world, but degenerates once it gets into the hands of man”
    ― Jean-Jaques Rousseau
    tags: philosophy, politics, society
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    Geneen Roth
    “You are not a mistake. You are not a problem to be solved. But you won't discover this until you are willing to stop banging your head against the wall of shaming and caging and fearing yourself. (p. 84)”
    ― Geneen Roth, Women, Food and God: An Unexpected Path to Almost Everything
    tags: body-image, eating, eating-disorders, health
    333 likes

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    Marya Hornbacher
    “Some people who are obsessed with food become gourmet chefs. Others become eating disorders.”
    ― Marya Hornbacher, Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia
    tags: eating-disorders, food, obsession
    129 likes

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  • #16
    Naomi Wolf
    “To ask women to become unnaturally thin is to ask them to relinquish their sexuality.”
    ― Naomi Wolf
    tags: culture, eating-disorders, sexuality, society, thinness, weight
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  • #17
    David Richo
    “Our wounds are often the openings into the best and most beautiful part of us.”
    ― David Richo
    tags: healing, inspiration, pain, psychology, relationships, therapy
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  • #18
    C.G. Jung
    “Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol, morphine or idealism.”
    ― Carl Gustav Jung
    tags: addiction, psyche, psychology
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  • #19
    J.K. Rowling
    “Numbing the pain for a while will make it worse when you finally feel it.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
    tags: pain
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  • #20
    John Lennon
    “One thing you can't hide - is when you're crippled inside.”
    ― John Lennon
    tags: beatles, emotions, hypocrisy, pain, suffering
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  • #21
    Bob Dylan
    “Behind every beautiful thing, there's some kind of pain.”
    ― Bob Dylan
    tags: beautiful, behind, kind, of, pain, thing
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  • #22
    Fuyumi Soryo
    “There's always someone who cares. Someone whose life would simply stop. You just don't know it yet, or you haven't found them yet.”
    ― Fuyumi Soryo (惣領 冬実)
    tags: caring, mars, someone
    96 likes

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  • #23
    Simone de Beauvoir
    “To lose confidence in one’s body is to lose confidence in oneself.”
    ― Simone de Beauvoir
    tags: beauty, body-image, diet-industry, eating-disorders, self-esteem, weight
    474 likes

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  • #24
    “Even the models we see in magazines wish they could look like their own images.”
    ― Cheri K. Erdman
    tags: body-image, culture, diet-industry, diets, eating-disorders, self-esteem, society, weight
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  • #25
    Eugene O'Neill
    “I am so far from being a pessimist...on the contrary, in spite of my scars, I am tickled to death at life.”
    ― Eugene O'Neill
    tags: optimism
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    Marilyn Monroe
    “I am not interested in money, I just want to be wonderful.”
    ― Marilyn Monroe
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  • #27
    Anderson Cooper
    “The farther you go...the harder it is to return. The world has many edges and it's easy to fall off.”
    ― Anderson Cooper, Dispatches from the Edge: A Memoir of War, Disasters, and Survival
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  • #28
    Chuck Klosterman
    “Art and love are the same thing: It’s the process of seeing yourself in things that are not you.”
    ― Chuck Klosterman, Killing Yourself to Live: 85% of a True Story
    tags: art, love, profound
    3555 likes

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  • #29
    Marguerite Duras
    “Our mothers always remain the strangest, craziest people we've ever met.”
    ― Marguerite Duras
    tags: mothers
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  • #30
    Stephen King
    “There's no bitch on earth like a mother frightened for her kids.”
    ― Stephen King
    tags: motherhood, mothers
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  • #31
    Maurice Sendak
    “A book is really like a lover. It arranges itself in your life in a way that is beautiful.”
    ― Maurice Sendak
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  • #32
    Ben Jonson
    “Drink today, and drown all sorrow;
    You shall perhaps not do it tomorrow;
    Best, while you have it, use your breath;
    There is no drinking after death.”
    ― Ben Jonson
    1632 likes



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