"Anorexia is a disease that happens to people, mostly women and girls, who have obsessive, perfectionist personalities."

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Besides, I'd heard too many Karen Carpenter tales at Gladstone PTA meetings, and they often took the form of boasts. The prestigious diagnosis of anorexia seemed much coveted not only by the students but by their mothers, who would compete over whose daughter ate less. No wonder the poor girls were a mess.

— Lionel Shriver