Aimee Liu famous quotes

Eating disorders are like a gun that's formed by genetics, loaded by a culture and family ideals, and triggered by unbearable distress.
-- Aimee Liu

#Gun #Anorexia #Eating Disorder

Error sometimes supplies the surprise that makes life interesting.
-- Aimee Liu

#Errors #Interesting #Sometimes

Certain temperaments respond to anxiety by pulling inward. Their instincts tell them ' Don't go out to meet the world - you'll have a panic attack. Inside is where safety is.
-- Aimee Liu

#Safety #Anxiety #Inward

I often went entire days without speaking - unable to get a word in over my inner taskmaster, who never shut up: “You fat, disgusting slob, you'll never be thin enough, good enough, smart enough, tough or talented enough.
-- Aimee Liu

#Smart #Tough #Shut Up

Anyone with a gun can go out and commit an act of terrorism, even without a political affiliation.

Soul brother number 1+1 Gettin' fed like where drugs and guns come from

The NRA appears to have evolved into the lobby for gun and ammunition manufacturers rather than gun owners.

You can do more with a kind word and a gun than with just a kind word.

Anorexics never have boyfriends. ... That's one way to know you don't have anorexia, if you have a boyfriend.

Anorexia is a response to cultural images of the female body - waiflike, angular - that both capitulates to the ideal and also mocks it, strips away all the ancillary signs of sexuality, strips away breasts and hips and butt and leaves in their place a garish caricature, a cruel cartoon of flesh and bone.

Artistic anorexia & sexual avoidance have the same root fears – fear of intimacy, fear of exposure, fear of failure”.

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

Their [those with eating disorders'] task is to rescue themselves from a drive that is destroying them. Food embodies the false values that their own bodies refuse to assimilate, by which I mean that their bodies become edemic, bloated, allergic, or resort to vomiting the poison out. The unconscious body, and certainly the conscious body, will not tolerate the negative mother.

We turn skeletons into goddesses and look to them as if they might teach us how not to need.