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“When you have a Jewish mother who has a very strong Jewish family, it's very ethnic in its practices. Eating brisket, the food and the family and the interconnectedness for better or worse.”

Mother Strong Practice Eating Very Strong Interconnectedness Jewish Family Jewish Mother Brisket

Author:Goldie

“Their [those with eating disorders'] task is to rescue themselves from a drive that is destroying them. Food embodies the false values that their own bodies refuse to assimilate, by which I mean that their bodies become edemic, bloated, allergic, or resort to vomiting the poison out. The unconscious body, and certainly the conscious body, will not tolerate the negative mother.”

Mean Body Mother Values Eating Conscious Negative Tasks Refuse Poison Unconscious Disorder Destroying Rescue Tolerate Resorts Eating Disorder Allergic Vomiting

Author:Marion Woodman

“The Christians seized all the maize the locals of Nicaragua had grown for themselves and their own families and, as a consequence, some twenty or thirty thousand natives died of hunger, some mothers even killing their own children and eating them.”

Children Christian Mother Atheism Thousand Eating Consequence Died Twenties Killing Hunger Positive Atheism Locals Thirty Nicaragua Maize

Author:Bartolome de las Casas

“The things that you did with parents, whether it was spending every Sunday morning with your dad and eating French toast and watching Popeye, or decorating the Christmas tree with our mother - these are memories that help you be happy.”

Helping Mother Parent Memories Morning Tree Dad Eating Spending Sunday Toasts Your Dad Christmas Tree Decorating Sunday Morning Popeye French Toast

Author:Leonardo DiCaprio

“I come from a Greek household. My mother wouldn't let the FedEx man come in without eating.”

Men Mother Eating Greek Household Greece X Men

Author:Arianna Huffington

“When shopping at Dunkin' Donuts, pretend you are the mother of nine. Say things like, 'Little David likes cream-filled and Susie wanted jelly.' That way, no one will be suspicious when you order a dozen donuts with one cup of coffee to go.”

Way Littles Wanted Mother Order Eating Filled Coffee Nine Likes Cups Shopping Dozen Cream Suspicious Coffee Cup Jelly Donuts Dunkin Donuts

Author:Linda Sunshine

“I hate skinny women, especially when they say things like 'Sometimes I forget to eat.' Now, I've forgotten my mother's maiden name, and my keys, but you've got to be a special kind of stupid to forget to eat!”

Kind Sometimes Mother Hate Names Forget Special Stupid Keys Eating Weight I Hate Forgotten Skinny Maidens Maiden Names

Author:Marsha Warfield

“I have a history of eating disorders but, as a mother, you think of being an example to your child. I'm so much more balanced than I was.”

Thinking Children Mother Example Eating Your Children Disorder Balanced Eating Disorder

Author:Geri Halliwell

“If you truly get in touch with a piece of carrot, you get in touch with the soil, the rain, the sunshine. You get in touch with Mother Earth and eating in such a way, you feel in touch with true life, your roots, and that is meditation. If we chew every morsel of our food in that way we become grateful and when you are grateful, you are happy.”

Ifs Way Life Inspirational Feels Earth Mother Change Pieces Meditation Eating Rain Roots Grateful Soil Sunshine Mother Earth Carrots True Life

Author:Nhat Hanh

“And, indeed, is there not something holy about a great kitchen?... The scoured gleam of row upon row of metal vessels dangling from hooks or reposing on their shelves till needed with the air of so many chalices waiting for the celebration of the sacrament of food. And the range like an altar, yes, before which my mother bowed in perpetual homage, a fringe of sweat upon her upper lip and the fire glowing in her cheeks.”