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Eating Disorders
Includes anorexia, bulimia, binge eating disorder / compulsive overeating, and eating disorder not otherwise specified (EDNOS). Mental illnesses involving a combination of thoughts / feelings, behaviors, and symptoms linked to eating/food and weight gain/loss and body image and physical symptoms.
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If I had lady-spider legs, I would weave a sky where the stars lined up. Matresses would be tied down tight to their trucks, bodies would never crash through windshields. The moon would rise above the wine-dark sea and give babies only to maidens and musicians who had prayed long and hard. Lost girls wouldn't need compasses or maps. They would find gingerbread paths to lead them out of the forest and home again. They would never sleep in silver boxes with white velvet sheets, not until they were
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― Wintergirls
― Wintergirls
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Beauty provokes harassment, the law says, but it looks through men's eyes when deciding what provokes it.
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― The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty Are Used Against Women
― The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty Are Used Against Women
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