Breast Cancer Quotes - Page 6

• I think a lot of people just aren't aware how young you can be and be diagnosed with breast cancer.

  Kate Walsh

  Cancer, Thinking, People

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

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• I'm happy to tell you that having been through surgery and chemotherapy and radiation, breast cancer is officially behind me. I feel absolutely great and I am raring to go.

  Carly Fiorina

  Cancer, Radiation, Chemotherapy

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• I know so many people who have battled breast cancer and they didn't all make it.

  Elizabeth Hurley

  Cancer, People, Breasts

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• There can be life after breast cancer. The prerequisite is early detection.

  Ann Jillian

  Cancer, Breasts, Detection

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• If you have a friend or family member with breast cancer, try not to look at her with 'sad eyes.' Treat her like you always did; just show a little extra love.

  Hoda Kotb

  Cancer, Eye, Trying

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• Brands must have a point of view on that purposeful engagement, whether it's directed towards the environment, poverty, water as a resource or causes such as breast cancer or education. Merely declaring your commitment to a category or cause will not be enough the distinguish your brand sufficiently to see a return on these well-intended efforts.

  Simon Mainwaring

  Cancer, Commitment, Views

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• I read somewhere that Mitt and I have a 'storybook marriage.' Well, in the storybooks I read, there were never long, long, rainy winter afternoons in a house with five boys screaming at once. And those storybooks never seemed to have chapters called MS or breast cancer.

  Ann Romney

  Cancer, Winter, Boys

  Ann Romney (2015). “In This Together: My Story”, p.161, Macmillan

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• The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Courage, Cancer, Grief

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.67, BookBaby

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• I have six sisters and two beautiful daughters - that's eight women who mean the world to me. I support the Entertainment Industry Foundation and Lee National Denim Day because they fund programs that are making huge strides in breast cancer research and support.

  Felicity Huffman

  Beautiful, Daughter, Mother

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• Having cancer does make you try to be better at everything you do and enjoy every moment. It changes you forever. But it can be a positive change.

  Jaclyn Smith

  Cancer, Forever, Trying

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• I laughed more in the hospital than I ever have in my life, making fun of all the weird things that were happening to me.

  Christina Applegate

  Fun, Cancer, Weird Things

  "Christina Applegate's Life After Breast Cancer" by Monica Corcoran, www.womenshealthmag.com. September 19, 2013.

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• Men get it. I think us men need you women to help us survive.

  Peter Criss

  Cancer, Men, Thinking

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• Be a tough-minded optimist.

  Frosty Westering

  Cancer, Tough, American Football

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• Sometimes, you know, I cry. And sometimes I scream. And I get really angry. And I get really upset, you know, into wallowing in self-pity sometimes. And I think that it's all part of the healing.

  Christina Applegate

  Cancer, Healing, Thinking

  "EXCLUSIVE: Applegate Underwent Breast Removal to Stop Cancer". Interview with Brian O'keefe, Lee Ferran, abcnews.go.com. August 19, 2008.

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• I didn't even think of my breasts in a nostalgic way, I just wanted to be able to live my life without that fear all the time. It's not 'pity me', it's a decision I made that's got rid of this weight that I was carrying around.

  Sharon Osbourne

  Cancer, Thinking, Decision

  "Sharon Osbourne reveals she had preventive double mastectomy" by Lizzy Davies, www.theguardian.com. November 5, 2012.

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• Now if I go through it again, I think I would be a lot more open about it. I admire people who have been open like Melissa Ethridge and women I see walking around facing it without wigs and all of that stuff. I think I would be more courageous next time.

  Kathy Bates

  Cancer, Thinking, People

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• Women who have been recently diagnosed with breast cancer can learn a tremendous amount from women who have already been treated.

  Anne Wojcicki

  Cancer, Breasts, Treated

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• Upon hearing the results of her breast examination, the First Lady said - "I guess it's my turn."

  Nancy Reagan

  Cancer, Examination, Hearing

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• But when this happens to you - and I think other people would identify with this - suddenly, colors are brighter. You see everything.

  Lynn Redgrave

  Cancer, Thinking, Color

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• I feel more inspired than ever, and think that I will finally achieve what I have long been wishing for: a balance of work and privacy - a harmony.

  Kylie Minogue

  Inspirational, Cancer, Thinking

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• It has been an extraordinary experience and, in many ways, extremely positive.

  Marianne Faithfull

  Cancer, Way, Extraordinary

  "People" by Maev Kennedy, www.theguardian.com. November 6, 2006.

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• My mum [who has breast cancer] is a fighter. I've got that from her, I know she's a fighter.

  Naomi Campbell

  Cancer, Fighter, Mum

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• Cancer patients are lied to, not just because the disease is (or is thought to be) a death sentence, but because it is felt to be obscene - in the original meaning of that word: ill-omened, abominable, repugnant to the senses.

  Susan Sontag

  Cancer, Disease, Patient

  Susan Sontag (1979). “Illness as metaphor”, Vintage

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• Someone like me shouldnt be diagnosed with breast cancer, thats what was going through my mind. I wasnt thinking about a diagnosis. I was just doing what I was supposed to do, which was staying on top of my mammograms. It was a shock.

  Sheryl Crow

  Cancer, Thinking, Mind

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• I heard those words that every woman fears and never wants to hear, 'You have breast cancer.

  Joan Lunden

  Cancer, Want, Heard

  "Joan Lunden Opens Up About Cancer Battle and Losing Her Hair" by Michael Rothman, abcnews.go.com. September 24, 2014.

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