With Ed, I always pushed away the good and only heard the bad. Today, I let in the good.

Ironically, this physically weak feeling signifies that I’m actually getting stronger. I know from my past that I will ultimately feel strong if I just sit with the feeling and experience it.

Being thin created intense anxiety that I wouldn’t be able to maintain that weight for life, and I couldn’t.

Real hope combined with real action has always pulled me through difficult times. Real hope combined with doing nothing has never pulled me through.

Clinicians have told me that our emotional is arrested at the age that an eating disorder takes control of our lives. After we recover, we pick up emotionally where we left off at that age.

I left myself out of humanity by focusing on differences. This isolation only strengthened Ed” (17)

Rock It, Read It.

It is the information we have that will determine who will hold a dominant position in this world

But when you choose your family, you get to choose how it is between you, too.

Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself.

Climate of Egypt in winter is the reign of spring upon earth, & summer in the air, and tranquility in the heat.

I don't have a label, I don't have a manager, I'm doing everything myself.

The search for a moral equivalent of war continues to define American liberalism to this day.

Little vicious minds abound with anger and revenge and are incapable of feeling te pleasure of forgiving their enemies.

An old paleontological in joke proclaims that mammalian evolution is a tale told by teeth mating to produce slightly altered descendant teeth.

It is awful to want to go away and to want to go nowhere.