The Ministry of Thin Quotes

“Being constantly hungry is no life at all.”
― Emma Woolf, The Ministry of Thin

“Are we really going to spend our whole lives like this, feeling the wrong shape and the wrong weight in the wrong skin?”
― Emma Woolf, The Ministry of Thin

“Anorexia is, without doubt, a serious eating disorder, but there is a hell of a lot of mainstream disordered eating going on out there.”
― Emma Woolf, The Ministry of Thin

“When everything is available, nothing is ever enough.”
― Emma Woolf, The Ministry of Thin

“For me, women’s attitudes to eating, hunger and their bodies are fascinating and confusing in equal measure. I find myself simultaneously involved and alienated, both a participant and an outsider. Of course I understand what women mean when they talk about food and weight; I understand when they refer to being good (dieting), or feeling guilty (greedy), or treating themselves (cake). I get it when women talk about disliking specific parts of their bodies. But it’s hard too, emerging from a decade of severe eating restriction, to look around me for examples of how to eat normally, and how to accept myself, to find that the majority of women are struggling with these issues too. Rationally we know that getting thinner won’t make us happier or more fulfilled – and yet we never give up trying.”
― Emma Woolf, The Ministry of Thin

“No one can turn back the clock. Lie about your age if you want, but we're all going in the same direction.”
― Emma Woolf, The Ministry of Thin