Geraldine Brooks Quotes About Cancer

Quotes about: Cancer

• I had been afraid of breast cancer, as I suspect most women are, from the time I hit adolescence. At that age, when our emerging sexuality is our central preoccupation, the idea of disfigurement of a breast is particularly horrifying.

  Geraldine Brooks

  Cancer, Ideas, Age

• If screenwriters have to kill off a female character, they love to give her cancer. We've seen so many great actresses go down to the Big C: Ali MacGraw, Meryl Streep, Emma Thompson, Debra Winger, Susan Sarandon.

  Geraldine Brooks

  Cancer, Character, Giving

• The day in 2004 when the radiologist told me I had invasive cancer, I walked down the hospital corridor looking for a phone to call my husband, and I could almost see the fear coming toward me like a big, black shadow.

  Geraldine Brooks

  Husband, Cancer, Phones

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