Breast Cancer Quotes - Page 7

• It has been an extraordinary experience and, in many ways, extremely positive.

  Marianne Faithfull

  Cancer, Way, Extraordinary

  "People" by Maev Kennedy, www.theguardian.com. November 6, 2006.

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• With breast cancer, it's all about detection. You have to educate young women and encourage them to do everything they have to do.

  Bill Rancic

  Cancer, Young, Breasts

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• On a personal note: I have contracted an outstanding case of breast cancer, from which I intend to recover. I don't need get-well cards, but I would like the beloved women readers to do something for me: Go. Get. The. Damn. Mammogram. Done.

  Molly Ivins

  Get Well, Cancer, Needs

  "Ann Richards and Molly Ivins Ain’t Done with Us Yet!" by Linda Milazzo, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 04, 2007.

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• From time to time, I'll look back through the personal journals I've scribbled in throughout my life, the keepers of my raw thoughts and emotions. The words poured forth after my dad died, when I went through a divorce, and after I was diagnosed with breast cancer. There are so many what-ifs scribbled on those pages.

  Hoda Kotb

  Dad, Cancer, Divorce

  Hoda Kotb, Jane Lorenzini (2014). “Ten Years Later: Six People Who Faced Adversity and Transformed Their Lives”, p.9, Simon and Schuster

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• I've always thought of myself as being a warrior. When you actually have a battle, it's better than when you don't know who to fight.

  Carly Simon

  Cancer, Fighting, Warrior

  "Carly Simon Battles Back From Breast Cancer" by George Rush, Joanna Molloy, Marcus Baram et al., www.nydailynews.com. May 5, 1998.

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• The women with high social pressure seem to be amongst the strongest carriers of the possibility of breast cancer.

  Caroline Myss

  Cancer, Social Pressure, Possibility

  Source: www.shareguide.com

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• I plan on ... encouraging so many women who are out there, who are still in the thick of it, who have yet to fight this fight, that you can do it, you can get through this one step at a time.

  Amy Robach

  Cancer, Fighting, Steps

  Amy Robach (2015). “Better: How I Let Go of Control, Held On to Hope, and Found Joy in My Darkest Hour”, p.194, Ballantine Books

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• Industrialized countries have disproportionately more cancers than countries with little or no industry (after adjusting for age and population size). One half of all the world's cancers occur in people living in industrialized countries, even though we are only one-fifth of the world's population. Closely tracking industrialization are breast cancer rates, which are highest in North America and northern Europe, intermediate in southern Europe and Latin America, and lowest in Asia and Africa.

  Sandra Steingraber

  Country, Cancer, Latin

  "Living Downstream: An Ecologist Looks at Cancer and the Environment". Book by Sandra Steingraber, 1997.

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• If people can talk about having breast cancer, why can't people who have mental illness talk about mental illness? Until we're able to do that, we're not going to be treated with the same kind of respect for our diseases as other people.

  Kay Redfield Jamison

  Cancer, People, Disease

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com. September 30, 2009.

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• The pink campaign has also served to "normalize" and depoliticize the disease and that makes it less threatening for a LOT of companies to jump onboard and claim breast cancer as their cause.

  Ravida Din

  Cancer, Campaigns, Disease

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Those of us who have gone through breast cancer treatment will say "yes" ..we absolutely need to focus on prevention. I never want my daughter to go through what I have gone through...never.

  Ravida Din

  Daughter, Cancer, Focus

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• anyone own a disease? I was also startled at the level of hypocrisy. How can a leading make up company not sign onto the "Campaign for Safe Cosmetics" and at the same time promote itself as leading the fight against breast cancer?

  Ravida Din

  Cancer, Fighting, Hypocrisy

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Movember is an event that I've supported for a number of years. I haven't grown a moustache myself before, but I've always donated to others. I think that raising awareness for men's health is really important. You see a lot of initiatives - very public initiatives - around women's health, like breast cancer awareness and the like, but men's health issues tend to go more unnoticed. I think this is a great cause and I'm proud to support it.

  James Magnussen

  Cancer, Men, Thinking

  "James Magnussen Movember Interview". Interview with Jamie Watt, au.askmen.com.

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• You know, when I was diagnosed with breast cancer in 1997 I realized I had spent too long arranging my attitude.

  Carly Simon

  Attitude, Cancer, Long

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• I think that we're making a mistake if we don't see that there is a cultural basis to many illnesses, not just psychiatric ones. Breast cancer would be one prevalent example right now, different kind of cultures surrounding it. If you don't understand the cultural meaning of an illness like that you're going to miss the boat even if you're a great scientist.

  Jonathan Michel Metzl

  Mistake, Cancer, Thinking

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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• Once I overcame breast cancer, I wasn't afraid of anything anymore.

  Melissa Etheridge

  Cancer, Breasts

  "Melissa Etheridge on Life After Breast Cancer". Shape Magazine Interview, www.shape.com. April 22, 2009.

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• I would tell a newly diagnosed young woman that breast cancer is a complex disease which can be frightening and confusing, and it's normal to experience these emotions, and having a good support system is important. Be an active participant in your treatment, follow your doctor's instructions and ask questions. Also, I would tell her that there have been many advances in breast cancer and women are now living much longer.

  Thelma Jones

  Cancer, Support, Confusing

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• One day, right after my mastectomy, I went for a walk in Central Park, and there was this mob of people blocking the road. I thought, 'Oh, great, now I'm stuck!' but then I suddenly realized that it was a breast cancer walk.

  Hoda Kotb

  Block, Cancer, Central Park

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• When Dr. Manner reported on the total remission of breast cancer in lab animals (Using 'Laetrile in conjunction with vitamins and enzymes')..., ACS President, Ben Byrd, criticised (him) for making his announcement in public, and said such announcements should be made only in a proper scientific forum.

  Paul Harvey

  Cancer, Dark, Animal

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• Cows given genetically modified growth hormones make more milk, but have painful swollen udders, have ulcers, joint pain, miscarriages, deformed calves, infertility, and much shorter life spans. Their milk contains blood, pus, tranquilizers, antibiotics, and an insulin growth factor that can cause a fourfold increase in prostate cancer and sevenfold rise in breast cancer. This is the milk used in our school lunch programs and served to our children. This is the milk that you buy every day. This is the milk used in all cheeses, yogurts, butter, and cream.

  Kevin Trudeau

  Children, Pain, Cancer

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• I'm the exact same person I was before (cancer). I'm still shallow, I still love clothes, I still want to talk fashion, I still want to gossip, so lay it on me.

  Giuliana Rancic

  Fashion, Cancer, Clothes

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• Now I have a third must-do on my list of things to do with cancer, and it's this: follow your gut, ask questions, don't be complacent.

  Cynthia Nixon

  Cancer, Lists, Complacent

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• We never hid anything from the kids. I feel whole again, I really do. I've told them, 'Mommy's boo-boo is much better now.'

  Wanda Sykes

  Cancer, Kids, Feels

  "Wanda Sykes: I Feel Whole Again" by Julie Jordan, people.com. October 27, 2011.

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• I'm a huge breast cancer awareness advocate because my mom went through breast cancer recently. It really brought our family closer.

  Brenda Song

  Mom, Cancer, Awareness

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• I write about nuclear tests in Refuge - "The Clan of One-Breasted Women." With so many of the women in my family being diagnosed with breast cancer, mastectomies led to one-breasted women. I believe it is the result of nuclear fallout.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Cancer, Believe, Writing

  Terry Tempest Williams (2006). “A voice in the wilderness: conversations with Terry Tempest Williams”, Utah State Univ Pr

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