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Marya Hornbacher Quotes

Total quotes: 10
“And yet you are all that you have, so you must be enough. There is no other way.”
— Marya Hornbacher, Wasted Updated Edition: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia(P.S.)
Tagged: Independence, Wise Words, Acceptance
“We grew up with the impression that underneath all this normal flesh, buried deep in the excessive recesses of our healthy bodies, there was a Perfect Body just waiting to break out. It would look exactly like everyone else's perfect body.”
— Marya Hornbacher, Wasted Updated Edition: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia(P.S.)
Tagged: Bodies, Mind body dualism, the perfect body, Body Image
“You never come back, not all the way. Always there is an odd distance between you and the people you love and the people you meet, a barrier thin as the glass of a mirror, you never come all the way out of the mirror; you stand, for the rest of your life, with one foot in this world and one in another, where everything is upside down and backward and sad.”
— Marya Hornbacher, Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia
Tagged: Eating Disorder, Self-Image, Self Boundaries, Relationships, distance between your loved ones, Self & Identity, self, barrier
“ It has been argued that food and eating have replaced sex as our foremost cultural taboo. To some extent I agree with this but would point out that the taboo is not against food, or sex, or flesh, but against a loss of control.”
— Marya Hornbacher, Wasted Updated Edition: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia(P.S.)
Tagged: Bodies, Mind body dualism, Mental Health, Control
“I did not like to be touched, but it was a strange dislike. I did not like to be touched because I craved it too much. I wanted to be held very tight so I would not break.”
— Marya Hornbacher, Wasted Updated Edition: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia(P.S.)
Tagged: Sadness, Deep Feelings, Sad Lyrics
“An eating disorder is in many ways a rather logical elaboration on a cultural idea.”
— Marya Hornbacher, Wasted Updated Edition: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia(P.S.)
Tagged: eating disorders
“There are women in my closet, hanging on my hangers, a different woman for each suit, each dress, each pair of shoes.”
— Marya Hornbacher, Wasted Updated Edition: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia(P.S.)
Tagged: Fashion, Clothes
“Some people who are obsessed with food become gourmet chefs. Others get eating disorders.”
— Marya Hornbacher, Wasted Updated Edition: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia(P.S.)
Tagged: eating disorders, Chefs, food
“Somewhere in the back of my brain there exists this certainty: The body is no more than a costume, and can be changed at will. That the changing of bodies, like costumes, would make me into a different character, a character who might, finally, be all right. I learned very early to choose my lines carefully. I still”
— Marya Hornbacher, Wasted Updated Edition: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia(P.S.)
Tagged: Bodies, Mind body dualism, character
“When you realize you hate yourself so much, when you realize that you cannot stand who you are, and this deep spite has been the motivation behind your behavior for many years, your brain can’t quite deal with it. It will try very hard to avoid that realization; it will try, in a last-ditch effort to keep your remaining parts alive, to remake the rest of you. This is, I believe, different from the suicidal wish of those who are in so much pain that death feels like relief, different from the suicide I would later attempt, trying to escape that pain. This is a wish to murder yourself; the connotation of kill is too mild. This is a belief that you deserve slow torture, violent death.”
— Marya Hornbacher, Wasted Updated Edition: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia(P.S.)
Tagged: Self-hatred, Death, Suicide
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