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.
I’m completely comfortable with gay marriage.
In a sense, having cancer takes you by the shoulders and shakes you.
I think being an effective First Lady is first of all being the partner that your husband needs.
We were never a family that had a lot. We had enough, but not a lot.
A lot of sad stories in a row – that wears on you.