“The good news, however, is that, also contrary to popular belief, full and lasting recovery from an eating disorder is possible.”

“Eating disorder sufferers cannot be told to 'pull themselves together', to 'stop doing that' or to 'just eat'.”

“One of the most dangerous myths surrounding eating disorders is that they are a life sentence.”

“Anorexia is not an illness of the body; it is an illness of the mind.”

“Anorexia cannot be cured by treating the physical symptoms alone; it is the mind which must be treated.”

“Guilt is a destructive and ultimately pointless emotion”

“Today's science should also relieve us of the fear that our children are at great risk to be recruited into homosexuality. I believe that if the gay community sent missionaries door to door like we Mormons do, spreading the good news of homosexuality, they would get pitifully few converts, probably only a small sliver of the terminally confused. "Join us and very possibly break your parents' hearts, throw the family into chaos, run the risk of intense self-loathing, especially if you are religious, invite the disgust of much of society, give up the warmth and benefits of marriage and probably of parenthood." (16)”