Even with friends, I had difficulty giving or receiving physical affection, although I secretly craved it.

It all turns on affection now," said Margaret. "Affection. Don't you see?... And affection, when reciprocated, gives rights. Put that down in your notebook, Mr. Mansbridge. It's a useful formula.

Emma says her illness was a kind of self-hypnosis which obliterated the outside world, a way of escaping life and reducing its proportions to what she could manage.

Now I'm being blamed not only for anorexia but for lung cancer. - On being a social smoker.

For centuries, we have been under very false stereotypes and misconceptions about what causes anorexia nervosa.

I always felt that anorexia was the form of breakdown most readily available to adolescent girls.