This diagnosis is a reminder that this is the life you’ve got. And you’re not getting another one. Whatever has happened, you have to take this life and treasure and protect it.
I’m not praying for God to save me from cancer. I’m not. God will enlighten me when the time comes. And if I’ve done the right thing, I will be enlightened. And if I believe, I’ll be saved. And that’s all he promises me.
Everybody makes personal decisions that are right for them and if you’re in political life, you’re used to having those analyzed.
I come out of real life.
Successful health reform must not just make health insurance affordable, affordable health insurance has to make health care affordable.
Part of resilience is deciding to make yourself miserable over something that matters, or deciding to make yourself miserable over something that doesn’t matter.
Life is this great big blackboard, and on it you write all the things that you do.
I’m not worried about me or what’s going to happen to me.
I have less energy than I did when I was a younger parent, although I was never really a young parent.
I was a 16-year-old girl at one point, so of course I wrote poetry.
I want to reclaim who I am.
I’m part of a community that holds each other up, and it’s been great to be held up too.
I think I did marry a marvelous man.
You wouldn’t know I was sick unless you knew I was sick.
My job is to stay alive until the medicine and research catch up.
I have a husband who adores me.
I don’t know why someone else’s marriage has anything to do with me.
We’re all going to die.
You don’t have to be perfect; you just have to be open.
I love children, love spending time with them; I love getting things for them.