"Gentle. Quiet. Tearstained and fitful. A compulsive overeater often binges to oblivion and exhaustion often passing out much like the drunk way over their limit. Sleep is restless and interrupted; like being exhausted and trying to sleep while someone pokes you with a stick."
"Wasted beauty; the tyranny of slenderness."
"This picture looks as if the woman has been hurt, not whole, depressed, abused."
"If this were an image of a starving animal or a malnourished child, it
would illicit pity, not only for the emaciated condition of the body but
for the weakness and vulnerability it represents. Yet we can do this to
ourselves and be accepted and even applauded for the achievement!"
"Gentle. Quiet. Tearstained and fitful. A compulsive overeater often binges to oblivion and exhaustion often passing out much like the drunk way over their limit. Sleep is restless and interrupted; like being exhausted and trying to sleep while someone pokes you with a stick."
"Wasted beauty; the tyranny of slenderness."
"This picture looks as if the woman has been hurt, not whole, depressed, abused."
"If this were an image of a starving animal or a malnourished child, it would illicit pity, not only for the emaciated condition of the body but for the weakness and vulnerability it represents. Yet we can do this to ourselves and be accepted and even applauded for the achievement!"