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" It's humiliating, being told you're not responsible enough to make your own choices in life. "

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" I really understand that we have to be sensitive to people's feelings and to their sensitivities, but you also can't be muzzled to tell a story. "

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" For me, the interesting thing about anorexia is that you show your wound. There's no hiding it. So my anger and sense of disappointment, all the stuff I was out of touch with, became this visible rebuke to my parents. "

" That's a big part of the process: making the right choice from the beginning. Not getting distracted by shiny things. "

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" That went on for a long time: telling various tales from my experience being anorexic and bulimic, and having people say, 'You've got to write this; you are a writer,' and me not knowing how to approach the material. "

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" I can't be interesting, controversial, and the writer I'd like to be if I need everybody to like me and think I'm doing the right thing, because those two things, in my experience, never go hand in hand. "

Doing The Right Thing

" The status quo is never happy when things become a meritocracy. "

" Around 10, I got chubby. I knew I'd crossed a line when the only pants that fit were from the 'Junior Plenty' line at JC Penny. My parents had split up, my mom was going through a dark time, and my brother and I were getting bullied in our new neighborhood. Life was big and unsafe. "

" There's this idea that Hollywood sells over and over again: 'If I just looked more like this, I'd be accepted.' "

" It all starts with a very solid, well-executed script, where the story is very clear and everybody is rowing in the same direction. That's always good; that's a constant. "