Breast Cancer Quotes - Page 8

• I am stronger than I thought I was. My favorite phrase has been 'This too shall pass.' I now understand it really well.

  Robin Roberts

  Cancer, Stronger, Phrases

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• This is another kind of competition, but I'm being coached by an excellent team, and I've got a real strong competitive spirit.

  Peggy Fleming

  Strong, Real, Cancer

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• Why aren't we looking at the causes of breast cancer? Why aren't we spending our energy on looking at what we're doing to the earth? On the pollutants we're putting into the earth? And the pesticides we're putting into the earth? What we're releasing into the air? Instead, we just cut off more organs! That's where metaphor comes into it - not even metaphor as much as reality.

  Eve Ensler

  Cancer, Cutting, Reality

  "The Big Idea: Eve Ensler". Interview with Suzanne Koven, therumpus.net. June 12, 2013.

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• Should I talk about [having breast cancer]? Because how many things could I have? You know black, lesbian - I'm like, I can't be the poster child for everything. At least with the LGBT issues we get a parade and a float and it's a party.

  Wanda Sykes

  Children, Cancer, Party

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• I am a 36-year-old person with breast cancer, and not many people know that that happens to women my age or women in their 20s. This is my opportunity now to go out and fight as hard as I can for early detection.

  Christina Applegate

  Cancer, Fighting, Opportunity

  "Why She Had a Double Mastectomy". "The Oprah Winfrey Show", edition.cnn.com. 2008.

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• When other women have this same operation, it doesn't make any headlines. But the fact that I was the wife of the President put it in headlines and brought before the public this particular experience I was going through. It made a lot of women realize that it could happen to them. I'm sure I've saved at least one person maybe more.

  Betty Ford

  Cancer, Wife, President

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• My breast cancer was caught very early thanks to my doctor a wonderful woman named Elsie Giogi, who just recently passed away after practicing medicine into her 80's. At the time, she had suggested I go for a baseline mammogram before age 40 because I had fibrocystic breasts. The mammogram discovered a tiny tumor, and it was so small that they were able to take it out very easily. I had a lumpectomy. Unfortunately, they did miss a little of the cancer, and two years later I had a mastectomy. But hey, I'm here, I'm alive, and I'm going to live to be 100!

  Kate Jackson

  Cancer, Doctors, Years

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• I have experienced firsthand the tremendous impact breast cancer has on the women who fight it and the loved ones who support them. This is a disease that catches you unaware and, without the right resources, leaves you feeling frightened and alone.

  Ricardo Antonio Chavira

  Cancer, Fighting, Impact

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• In the war against breast cancer, we have the ability to arm ourselves with knowledge and education is a powerful tool. By taking action and doing something positive, fear is replaced with hope.

  Diahann Carroll

  Powerful, War, Cancer

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• I personally know women who are Breast Cancer survivors and will do all I can to support the cause. Besides, I love boobies!

  Jane Wiedlin

  Cancer, Support, Survivor

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• I had a friend, Melissa, who was 28 years old. She was my best friend's wife, and she was my wife's best friend. She died of breast cancer. When she passed away back in 2004 was the last time I cried.

  Jason Aldean

  Friendship, Cancer, Years

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• Well, the first thing that clued me in to the fact that there was something really scary about breast cancer, way beyond the thought of dying, was coming across an ad in the newspaper for pink breast cancer teddy bears. I am not that afraid of dying, but I am terrified of dying with a pink teddy bear under my arm.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Cancer, Scary, Dying

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• You have to pay attention to who you are. You need to know your family history as well as you can. It is important for young women to have preventive care. If you catch any women's cancers early it's the difference between life and death. Do you really want to leave your kids without a mother?

  Cokie Roberts

  Mother, Cancer, Kids

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• When Mrs. Bush was First Lady, she went all over the Mideast talking about breast cancer awareness and the need for early screening. She did this in places where the cultures prohibit such discussion or even detection efforts.

  Greta Van Susteren

  Cancer, Talking, Effort

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• The idea is to encourage men to go with their wives and screen. So, if the wife is going to go and do her screening, then the man can go and do his baseline screening, too. Men need to be aware of the health of their bodies, as well - prostate cancer and breast cancer are almost on the same level.

  Olivia Newton-John

  Cancer, Men, Ideas

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• Being a breast cancer survivor, as I like to call myself - it will be twenty years next year - I did it to make it possible for women to do regular self breast examinations. It's really important - and, it makes common sense: you know your body better than the doctor does who only sees you once a year, you know?

  Olivia Newton-John

  Cancer, Self, Years

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• I don't want to be 'the girl with cancer' ... I just didn't want that to be my only thing. But it is part of me. And it's a big part of me.

  Hoda Kotb

  Girl, Cancer, Want

  "TODAY anchor empowered after cancer". Interview with Ann Curry, www.today.com. October 17, 2007.

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• A breast cancer might turn out to have a close resemblance to a gastric cancer. And this kind of reorganization of cancer in terms of its internal genetic anatomy has really changed the way we treat and approach cancer in general.

  Siddhartha Mukherjee

  Cancer, Reorganization, Might

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• If it weren't for my breast cancer, I wouldn't be a 'Today' host. After I got better, I talked to my boss about working on the show. Six months before, I'd have been terrified to go in there and ask for what I wanted. But after what I'd been through, how could I be scared of being told no?

  Hoda Kotb

  Cancer, Boss, Six Months

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• I feel so fortunate and grateful to be a survivor of breast cancer. I see it as a gift.

  Olivia Newton-John

  Inspirational, Cancer, Grateful

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• Whether you're a mother or father, or a husband or a son, or a niece or a nephew or uncle, breast cancer doesn't discriminate.

  Stephanie McMahon

  Mother, Uncles, Husband

  "Stephanie McMahon Q&A: 'I love to play the bad guy'". Interview with Marcus Vanderberg, sports.yahoo.com. October 21, 2014.

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• Breast cancer is scary and no one understands that like another woman who has gone through it too.

  Mindy Sterling

  Cancer, Scary, Gone

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I have been tested. I have beaten breast cancer. I have buried a child. I started as a secretary. I fought my way to the top of corporate America while being called every B word in the book. I fought my way into this election and on to this debate stage while all the political insiders and the pundits told, "it couldn't be done."

  Carly Fiorina

  Children, Cancer, Book

  "5th Republican debate transcript, annotated: Who said what and what it meant". www.washingtonpost.com. December 15, 2015.

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• My efforts to join the fight against breast cancer all began around the fact that women were getting short-changed in the medical arena.

  Evelyn Lauder

  Cancer, Fighting, Effort

  "Using My Passion To Help Find A Cure" by Evelyn Lauder, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 17, 2007.

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• Breast cancer alone kills some 458,000 people each year, according to the World Health Organization, mainly in low- and middle-income countries. It has got to be a priority to ensure that more women can access gene testing and lifesaving preventive treatment, whatever their means and background, wherever they live.

  Angelina Jolie

  Country, Cancer, Mean

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