" The cultural assumption seems to be that there’s something wrong with wanting to eat. Appetite is something to be fended off with willpower or chemically. We’re locked in a war with our own hunger which is the primal force that sustains us. Of course, the talk shows and magazines aim mainly at women who make up the vast majority of those with weight issues. We’re socialized to fear our appetites whether they’re for food or sex or power. We’re taught from birth to make ourselves small and dainty, to not take up room. Can this kind of a culturation cause anorexia? I don’t think so. Can it trigger someone who is vulnerable? No doubt about it.” Brave Girl Eating: A Family's Struggle with Anorexia "

― Harriet Brown