“Once, he sent her a selfie from the bathtub eating spinach out of a bag, one leaf at a time. Why was he eating it this way? 'He didn’t know how else you were ‘supposed’ to eat them.'”— C. Brian Smith, melmagazine.com
“Eating what I wanted was not allowed. Wanting what I wanted was not allowed. I needed to sacrifice, atone, make up for being myself. For being fat.”— Geneen Roth, amazon.com
“In an April 2007 UCLA study of the effectiveness of dieting, researchers found that one of the best predictors of weight gain was having lost weight on a diet at some point during the years before the study started.”— Geneen Roth, amazon.com
“Food is good and comfort is good. Except that when you are not hungry and want comfort, food is only a temporary palliative; why not address the discomfort directly?”— Geneen Roth, amazon.com
“When all of a sudden you get these skinny little actresses from a show called The O.C. and they're saying they don't like raw fish, I'm like 'Fuck you', why are you talking about my food?”— Mario Batali, youtube.com
“As I see it, man is a product of his conditioning, and the social forces which mold his morality and conduct—including racial prejudice—are influenced more by material things like food and economic necessities than by the fear and awe and bigotry generated by the high priests of commercialized super…”— Frank Sinatra, reprints.longform.org
“If a woman can find the support she needs in order to experience, accept, and express her feelings, she need not worry that her obsessions with food and eating will worsen.”— Anita A. Johnston, amazon.com
“For example, women who crave warm foods such as soups and stews are often longing for emotional warmth in their lives. Those who crave sweets may either be missing sweetness in their lives or be trying to make themselves "sweeter." A craving for spicy foods may indicate a need for intellectual or em…”— Anita A. Johnston, amazon.com
“For many women who have struggled with disordered eating most of their lives, there is nothing more terrifying than the concept of eating whatever they want.”— Anita A. Johnston, amazon.com
“It is important to recognize the difference between feeling hungry and feeling famished because if you wait to eat until you are famished, the chances of your overeating are great. You will then say to yourself, "See, I can't trust myself to eat when I am hungry!" and begin to feel very discouraged…”— Anita A. Johnston, amazon.com
“Food waste is perhaps the single biggest, and potentially most solvable, environmental problem today. Why don’t we spend more time and resources fixing this?”— Jon Foley, twitter.com
“Our modern society also has a ritual for adolescent girls to mark their entrance into womanhood. It is called dieting.”— Anita A. Johnston, amazon.com
“When a woman is struggling to recover from disordered eating, it is important for her to remember that food is a metaphor and that through the process of understanding that metaphor, healing begins.”— Anita A. Johnston, amazon.com
“My mum says that if food were her boyfriend, she'd be in an abusive relationship.”— Jonathan Entwistle, Alyssa, Jessica Barden, imdb.com
“"I gotta have a swamp too. Gotta have a swamp. Either a Swamp, our a marsh full of marshmallows. MARSHmallows"”— Dane Cook, genius.com
“"Hey, waiter! Why is my portion so small today?" "I was here yesterday and I had bigger piece of meat and much more garnish?" "Where were you sitting yesterday, sir?" "By the window." "You see, customers by the window are served better for advertising."”— AlexanderZotov, reddit.com
“3-year-old: My belly doesn't want to go to sleep. Me: Why not? 3: Tacos. That makes complete sense to me.”— James Breakwell, twitter.com
“Me: What's wrong? 5-year-old: I'm hungry and not hungry. I understand completely.”— James Breakwell, twitter.com
“You can't eat this soup standing up; your knees buckle.”— Spike Feresten, Jerry Seinfeld, Jerry Seinfeld, imdb.com