#disorder

Autism is an extremely variable disorder. ↗

— Temple Grandin

#disorder #extremely #variable

Food compulsion isn't a character disorder; it's a chemical disorder. ↗

— Robert Atkins

#chemical #compulsion #disorder #food

The last thing the consumer index wants men and women to do is to figure out how to love one another: The $1.5 trillion retail-sales industry depends on sexual estrangement between men and women, and is fueled by sexual dissatisfaction. Ads do not sell sex--that would be counterproductive, if it meant that heterosexual women and men turned to one another and were gratified. What they sell is sexual discontent. ↗

— Naomi Wolf

#eating-disorders #feminism #self-esteem #society #beauty

I'm shy, but I'm not clinically shy. I don't have social anxiety disorder or anything like that. I more have a gentle shyness. Like, I have a little trouble mingling at parties. ↗

— Samantha Bee

#anything #disorder #gentle #i #like

In a disordered mind, as in a disordered body, soundness of health is impossible. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#disordered #health #impossible #mind #soundness

The human heart likes a little disorder in its geometry. ↗

— Louis de Bernieres

#geometry #heart #human #human heart #likes

The beauty myth of the present is more insidious than any mystique of femininity yet: A century ago, Nora slammed the door of the doll's house; a generation ago, women turned their backs on the consumer heaven of the isolated multiapplianced home; but where women are trapped today, there is no door to slam. The contemporary ravages of the beauty backlash are destroying women physically and depleting us psychologically. If we are to free ourselves from the dead weight that has once again been made out of femaleness, it is not ballots or lobbyists or placards that women will need first; it is a new way to see. ↗

— Naomi Wolf

#beauty #eating-disorders #images #magazines #marketing

Now, bipolar disorder, it goes on a spectrum. There's very severe conditions of it and there are milder ones. I'm lucky enough that it's reasonably mild in my case. ↗

— Stephen Fry

#case #conditions #disorder #enough #goes

When we violate the law ourselves, whatever short-term advantage may be gained, we are obviously encouraging others to violate the law; we thus encourage disorder and instability and thereby do incalculable damage to our own long-term interests. ↗

— J. William Fulbright

#damage #disorder #encourage #encouraging #gained

I think flying planes into a building was a faith-based initiative. I think religion is a neurological disorder. ↗

— Bill Maher

#disorder #faith-based #flying #i #i think