Quotes by Harriet Brown

About Harriet Brown:

Harriet Brown is an American writer, magazine editor, and professor of magazine journalism at the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University. She's the author of several books, including "Body of Truth: How Science, History, and Culture Drive Our Obsession with Weight--and What We Can Do About It" (Da Capo, 2015), Brave Girl Eating: A Family's Struggle with Anorexia (William Morrow and Company, 2010) and The Good-bye Window: A Year in the Life of a Day-Care Center (University of Wisconsin Press). She has edited two anthologies: Mr. Wrong: Real-Life Stories About the Men We Used to Love (Ballantine, 2007), and Feed Me!: Writers Dish About Food, Eating, Body Image, and Weight (Ballantine, 2009).
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I’ve never had anorexia, but I know it well. I see it on the street, in the gaunt and sunken face, the boney chest, the spindly arms of an emaciated woman. I’ve come to recognize the flat look of despair, the hopelessness that follows, inevitably...

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It's so easy to focus on the anguish and the misery; it's harder, somehow, to acknowledge the positive, maybe for fear of jinxing it, bringing the nightmare back down on our heads.

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Between 10 and 20 percent of people with anorexia die from heart attacks, other complications and suicide; the disease has the highest mortality rate of any mental illness. Or Kitty could have lost her life in a different way, lost it to the roller c...

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Author Bio

  • NameHarriet Brown
  • DescriptionAmerican writer
  • CountryUnited States Of America