You can have a disordered relationship with food, but to have an eating disorder is indicative of a mental illness, which I think needs treatment and recognition in a different way.

My high school was a private school where you went to an Ivy League. That's just what was expected of you and nothing less. So I grew up never being okay with a 'B' because a 'B' was not good enough.

Just remembering that they [people with eating disorder] are young, beautiful and unique and that is worth everything in this world.

Hollywood is a challenging place; it's very easy for people to lose their heads. Fortunately, I grew up on it and I think I have a little bit of a head start.

I hate nothing more than having my nails painted. I feel like I'm in time out.

Even when I was young I wanted to be an actress.

Its a very wonderful yet difficult thing to be given a lot of really good opportunities and the world is at your fingertips.

I grew up with brothers. Girls terrified me.

I like wearing my dads sweaters because I knew that he wore them when he held me when I was a baby.

As I got older, I had a bunch of friends that were various teen stars. I've always known people in the spotlight and people who just grew up in LA and had nothing to do with the industry.

When I was 5 years old, my best friends were Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen because we lived across the street from each other.

A man desire two things: love and happiness.

Nature's stern discipline enjoins mutual help at least as often as warfare. The fittest may also be the gentlest.

The brain is not and cannot be the sole or complete organ of thought and feeling.

The root of a nation's misfortunes has to be sought in the moral failings of the government.

Separation of Church and State is the perineum of America and the episiotomy didn't hold.

If God wants us to pray without ceasing, it is because He wants to answer without ceasing!

The air of summer was sweeter than wine.

By growing up in Alabama, I had a melting pot of the whole pie: R&B, gospel, country.

We cannot afford to be idle, and though weaker than our opponents in men and military equipments, must endeavor to harass, if we cannot destroy them.

When you side with a man, you stay with him. And if you can't do that, you're like some animal. You're finished. We're finished. All of us.