Breast Cancer Quotes

• Early detection is key," she said. "And if I hadn't found my lump early, I don't know what would have been. I am still here and I want to encourage women to do that on a regular basis.

  Olivia Newton-John

  Inspirational, Cancer, Keys

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• We "need" cancer because, by the very fact of its incurability, it makes all other diseases, however virulent, not cancer.

  Gilbert Adair

  Cancer, Needs, Disease

  Gilbert Adair (1986). “Myths & memories”, HarperCollins

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• My veins are filled, once a week with a Neapolitan carpet cleaner distilled from the Adriatic and I am as bald as an egg. However I still get around and am mean to cats.

  John Cheever

  Cancer, Mean, Cat

  1982 On his cancer treatment. Letter to Philip Roth, 10 May.

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• I look at my cancer journey as a gift: It made me slow down and realisethe important things in life and taught me to not sweat the small stuff.

  Olivia Newton-John

  Cancer, Journey, Things In Life

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• My mother has battled breast cancer three times.

  Cynthia Nixon

  Mother, Cancer, Three

  "Cynthia Nixon on Bisexuality & Her New Role in ‘Wit’". Interview with Kevin Sessums, www.thedailybeast.com. January 24, 2012.

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• I always sort of thought, 'I'm probably going to get breast cancer. There's a really good chance.'

  Cynthia Nixon

  Cancer, Chance, Breasts

  "Cynthia Nixon Beats Breast Cancer, Becomes Advocate" by Olivia Sterns, Jen Periera, Thea Trachtenberg and Laura Zachary, abcnews.go.com. April 15, 2008.

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• My goal is people associate November with COPD awareness month as much as they notice October with breast cancer and pink. That'd be a great thing if it happened. The fact that COPD kills more people than breast cancer and diabetes put together should raise some red flags.

  Danica Patrick

  Cancer, Red Flags, People

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• People used to say everyone knows someone who's had breast cancer. In the past few weeks, I've learned something else: Everyone has someone close to them who has had breast cancer.

  Debbie Wasserman Schultz

  Cancer, Past, People

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• And I'll tell you, honestly, folks that I talk to, the 2.5 million breast cancer survivors in America, that I am one of, understand that we're done with insurance companies dropping us or denying us coverage because of - because we have a preexisting condition.

  Debbie Wasserman Schultz

  Cancer, America, Survivor

  "Reps. Ryan, Wasserman Schultz on 'FNS'". "Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. March 21, 2010.

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• Obviously, it wasn't meant for me to die of cancer at 40. Every day my life surprises me, just like my cancer diagnosis surprised me. But you roll with it. That's our job as humans.

  Edie Falco

  Jobs, Cancer, Diagnosis

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• With breast cancer, nothing is straightforward. It makes sense for most people to make their dietary decisions based on what it does for heart disease. That's where the data are most strong.

  Walter Willett

  Inspirational, Strong, Cancer

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• This was our last stop. This was it. We had those two embryos that we had banked prior to learning about the breast cancer, and with the medicine she was on, this was our last effort. The prayers were answered.

  Bill Rancic

  Prayer, Cancer, Two

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• One must not forget that recovery is brought about not by the physician, but by the sick man himself. He heals himself, by his own power, exactly as he walks by means of his own power, or eats, or thinks, breathes or sleeps.

  Georg Groddeck

  Cancer, Healing, Health

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• When I went public with my breast cancer diagnosis six weeks ago, the overwhelming outpouring of love, prayers and support really helped me heal faster. I want to make sure to thank everyone.

  Giuliana Rancic

  Prayer, Cancer, Support

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• Think about it: Look at the strides of awareness and treatment and tests that women have had with breast cancer, that the gay community has had with AIDS, because they're active and they talk about it.

  Herbie Mann

  Cancer, Gay, Thinking

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• I was just shaking and then also immediately, I had to go into 'take-care-of-business-mode' which included a change to a more healthy diet.

  Christina Applegate

  Cancer, Healthy, Care

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• I do a lot of races for the cure for breast cancer.

  Mary Ann Mobley

  Cancer, Race, Survivor

  "Mary Ann Mobley: going public about a private disease". Saturday Evening Post Interview with Cory SerVaas, January 1, 1994.

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• Cancer victims who don't accept their fate, who don't learn to live with it, will only destroy what little time they have left.

  Ingrid Bergman

  Cancer, Fate, Survival

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

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• There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Hope, Fear, Cancer

  Baruch Spinoza (1981). “Ethics”, p.150, Commodius Vicus

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• I have heard there are troubles of more than one kind. Some come from ahead and some come from behind. But I've bought a big bat. I'm all ready you see. Now my troubles are going to have troubles with me!

  Dr. Seuss

  Life, Positive, Success

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• I learned there are troubles of more than one kind. Some come from ahead and some from behind.

  Dr. Seuss

  Cancer, Hard Times, Tough Times

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• One important thing to know is you're still the same person during it. I'm more eager than ever to do what I did. I want to do everything.

  Kylie Minogue

  Cancer, Important, Want

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• Most breast cancer-related deaths can be prevented through simple and painless preventive measures. A late diagnosis can result in more serious, long-term consequences.

  Olympia Snowe

  Cancer, Simple, Long

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• People go through challenging moments of losing people and of having their life threatened from illness and real grief. But they get through it. And that's the testament to the human spirit and it's -we are fragile, but we also are divine.

  Sheryl Crow

  Inspirational, Motivational, Real

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• I started realizing I could be an example for women to not just be aware of breast cancer but to act on it. To make an appointment, to give themselves an exam.

  Giuliana Rancic

  Cancer, Giving, Example

  "Giuliana Rancic a 'wreck' before breast cancer reveal" by, www.today.com. October 18, 2011.

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