Melissa Etheridge Quotes

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• Be strong, believe in who you are;
  be strong, believe in what you feel.

  Melissa Etheridge

  Strength, Being Strong, Stay Strong

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• You are more powerful than you know; you are beautiful just as you are.

  Melissa Etheridge

  Inspirational, Beautiful, Being Strong

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• Instead of taking five or six of the prescriptions, I decided to go a natural route and smoke marijuana.

  Melissa Etheridge

  Weed, Marijuana, Six

  "Melissa Etheridge's anthem of hope". "Dateline" with Stone Phillips, www.nbcnews.com. October 16, 2005.

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• Don't let anyone tell you that you have to be a certain way. Be unique. Be what you feel.

  Melissa Etheridge

  Unique, Way, Authenticity

  Twitter post from Jan 18, 2018

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• Everybody's got a hunger no matter where they are. Everybody clings to their own fear. Everybody hides some scar - Precious pain. Empty and cold but it keeps me alive. I gave it my soul so that I could survive - keeping me safe in these chains.

  Melissa Etheridge

  Pain, Soul, Matter

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• Gay people are born everyday. You will never legislate that away.

  Melissa Etheridge

  Gay, People, Everyday

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• We are getting older, and we are getting wiser, and we are getting freer. And when you get the wisdom and the truth, then you get the freedom and you get power, and then look out. Look out.

  Melissa Etheridge

  Getting Older, Looks, Wiser

  "Daring to Be Ourselves: Influential Women Share Insights on Courage, Happiness, and Finding Your Own Voice". Book by Marianne Schnall, www.huffingtonpost.com. 2010.

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• There's a point when your tape of life runs off the reel and there's this stillness of your own - I got to know myself.

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  Running, Tape, Knows

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• There is no fear when you choose love. The more you choose love, the more love is in your life. It gets easier and easier.

  Melissa Etheridge

  Inspirational Life, Love Is, No Fear

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• I feel my heart break to see a nation ripped apart by it's own greatest strength - it's diversity.

  Melissa Etheridge

  Strength, Strong, Heart

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• Mothers, tell your children: be quick, you must be strong. Life is full of wonder, love is never wrong. Remember how they taught you, how much of it was fear. Refuse to hand it down - the legacy stops here.

  Melissa Etheridge

  Mother, Strong, Children

  Song: Silent Legacy, Album: Yes I Am

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• What people don't get is that hair is such a big part of our identity.

  Melissa Etheridge

  Hair, People, Identity

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• I adopted a healthier diet. I take at least a tablespoon of apple-cider vinegar a day. It's an old wives' tale, but it really is one of the best things you can put in your mouth.

  Melissa Etheridge

  Apples, Wife, Vinegar

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• We have a choice every day between fear and love.

  Melissa Etheridge

  Choices, And Love, Serious

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• Life is full of wonder, love is never wrong.

  Melissa Etheridge

  Love Is, Wonder Love, Gay Rights

  Song: Silent Legacy, Album: Yes I Am

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• Believe in yourself and what you feel. Your power will come from that.

  Melissa Etheridge

  Self Esteem, Believe, Self Respect

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

  Melissa Etheridge

  Cancer, Breast Cancer, Breasts

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

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• There will always be someone else with a different view than you. I appreciate them and would never say that they are wrong. I hope that they would give me that courtesy also.

  Melissa Etheridge

  Views, Appreciate, Giving

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• My belief is that cancer comes from inside you and so much of it has to do with the environment of your body. It's the stress that will turn that gene on or not.

  Melissa Etheridge

  Cancer, Stress, Body

  "Rippin’ & tearin’ & strippin’". Interview with Joey DiGuglielmo, www.washingtonblade.com. June 13, 2013.

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• The only thing that stays the same is change.

  Melissa Etheridge

  Song: Change, Album: Your Little Secret, 1995

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• The songs are inspired by my experiences. Sometimes they are more than my real-life and, conversely, my life is more than just my songs.

  Melissa Etheridge

  Music, Song, Real

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• I always tell people I'm grateful for my cancer diagnosis because it was the greatest gift because it completely changed my life. I was able to stop and let my whole life and world just crash over me like a wave. And I stood there and went, 'Wow.' And for the first time, I stopped everything. I had to.

  Melissa Etheridge

  Cancer, Grateful, People

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• I have that gene mutation too and it’s not something I would believe in for myself. I wouldn’t call it the brave choice. I actually think it’s the most fearful choice you can make when confronting anything with cancer. My belief is that cancer comes from inside you and so much of it has to do with the environment of your body. It’s the stress that will turn that gene on or not.

  Melissa Etheridge

  Stress, Cancer, Believe

  "Rippin’ & tearin’ & strippin’". Interview with Joey DiGuglielmo, www.washingtonblade.com. June 13, 2013.

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• Empty and cold, but it keep me alive. I gave it my soul, so that I could survive.

  Melissa Etheridge

  Evil, Soul, Alive

  Song: Precious Pain, Album: Melissa Etheridge

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• It's so hard to listen to these trains outside my window, here it comes again. And it's calling me, begging me, follow me down the track. And it moans so dark and low, baby ain't comin' back... It sounds like crying, it sounds like letting go. Breathing and lying, sinking and dying slow. And I watch from my window, touching the cold glass sky. As the train rolls down the track, I say goodbye.

  Melissa Etheridge

  Letting Go, Goodbye, Baby

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