Cancer Quotes - Page 17

• I had a cancer scare in the early 90s, and for a few months, I wondered if I would make it.

  Kiki Dee

  Scare, Months, Ifs

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• Once you are diagnosed with cancer, time changes. It both speeds up insanely and stops altogether.

  Eve Ensler

  Speed, Illness

  Eve Ensler (2013). “In the Body of the World: A Memoir of Cancer and Connection”, p.9, Macmillan

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• Conflict is like cancer; early detection increases the possibility of a healthy outcome.

  John C. Maxwell

  Healthy, Outcomes, Conflict

  John C. Maxwell (2005). “Winning with People Workbook”, p.86, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• If anything diminishes a person, it is the cancer of constant complaining.

  Joan D. Chittister

  Complaining, Constant, Persons

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• I believe racism has killed more people than speed, heroin, or cancer, and will continue to kill until it is no more.

  Alice Childress

  Believe, Racism, People

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• Thanks to feminism, women can now acquire status in two ways: through marriage or their own achievements. Cure cancer or marry the man who does, either way society will applaud. Unless he marries into the British royal family, it doesn't work that way for men. Wives shed no glory on their husbands. Having tea with Nancy Reagan is an honor; having tea with Denis Thatcher is a joke.

  Katha Pollitt

  Husband, Men, Two

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• In fact, without any exaggeration, the current mechanism of money creation through credit is certainly the "cancer" that's irretrievably eroding market economies of private property.

  Maurice Allais

  Credit, Facts, Creation

  "La Crise mondiale d'aujourd'hui. Pour de profondes réformes des institutions financières et monétaires" by Maurice Allais, Clément Juglar, Paris, (p. 74), 1999.

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• [On suicide:] It's the only cause of death that can be used as a noun to describe the dead person. If you die of cancer you are not called 'a cancer.' If someone else shoots you, you are not referred to as 'a murder.' But if you shoot yourself, you are labeled as a suicide. Your death becomes your definition.

  Joan Wickersham

  Suicide, Causes, Nouns

  Joan Wickersham (2009). “The Suicide Index: Putting My Father's Death in Order”, p.204, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• What really got me focused on cancer was when my best friend was diagnosed with breast cancer and even though she was a well-to-do person, I found that her treatment costs were crippling.

  Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw

  My Best Friend, Cost, Treatment

  "Women at Work: Biocon Founder on Philanthropy, Sexism and Politics". Interview with Atish Patel, blogs.wsj.com. June 18, 2013.

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• I have no regrets. I had an amazing surrogate who carried my son for me. I am so grateful to her. I can even say I am grateful for having cancer. I was always meant to be a mom, but if I didnt have cancer, I never would have had Zev. I would have had a kid, but not Zev, and I want Zev - tantrums and all.

  Marissa Jaret Winokur

  Mom, Regret, Grateful

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• On Dec. 10, 2000, I learned I was free of cancer.

  Marissa Jaret Winokur

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• We say that one gets cancer, or a cold, or kidney disease. One would
  never think to say that one is cancer. But we say that one is depressed,
  or bipolar, or schizophrenic. A disease of the body is a condition. But
  a disease of the mind, we think, is a state of being. We no longer
  believe, as we did 250 years ago, that the mentally ill are animals,
  but we are not yet ready to grant that they are fully human either.

  Paul Gruchow

  Believe, Thinking, Animal

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• Our society is turning toward more and more needless consumption. It is a vicious circle that I compare to cancer . . . . Should we eliminate suffering, diseases? The idea is beautiful, but perhaps not a benefit for the long term. We should not allow our dread of diseases to endanger the future of our species. . . . In order to stabilize world population, we need to eliminate 350,000 people a day. It is a horrible thing to say, but it's just as bad not to say it.

  Jacques Yves Cousteau

  Beautiful, Order, Circles

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• My wife Cecily Adams was dying of cancer, my daughter Madeline was struggling to overcome an autism diagnosis, and my father was dying, all at the same time. Writing the journal was a cathartic experience, and an extremely positive one.

  Jim Beaver

  Daughter, Father, Struggle

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• For me, so much of my life has been this attempt to find my way back into my body. I tried various forms, from promiscuity, to eating disorders, to performance art. And I think it wasn't until I got cancer, where I was suddenly being pricked and ported and chemoed and operated on, that I suddenly just became body. I was just a body. And it was in that, in that finally landing in myself that I really discovered the world in my body.

  Eve Ensler

  Art, Thinking, Eating Disorder

  "In The Body of the World". Interview with Marianne Schnall, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 29, 2013.

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• Cancer was the most terrifying, arduous, painful thing, but it was also a profound gift in the sense that I was holding so much in my body for so many years that was dark and terrifying which was preventing my coming back into myself.

  Eve Ensler

  Dark, Years, Profound

  "Interview with Eve Ensler: In The Body of the World". Interview with Marianne Schnall, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 29, 2013.

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• I've been in the sun most of my life. I've gone to skin doctors and they'll say to you, 'We should remove this because it's pre-cancerous,' and I'll say, 'Explain pre-cancerous to me.' I'll listen for about twenty minutes and I'll say excuse me, 'Is pre-cancerous like pre-dead? So you're saying it could turn into cancer but it's not cancer?'

  George Hamilton

  Doctors, Skins, Twenties

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• What matters is ultimately what collectively those people on the street - whether that's the cycling community, the cancer community - it matters what they think.

  Lance Armstrong

  Thinking, What Matters, Cycling

  "Lance Armstrong says turn back time and he would 'probably' dope again". Interview with Brendan Trembath, www.abc.net.au. January 27, 2015.

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• The ban doesn't have anything to do with Livestrong or my ability to work in [the cancer] community. Perhaps it speeds it up. I don't know the examples in Great Britain of athletes who have fallen. I know the examples in the United States - the Tiger Woods, the Michael Vicks, even the Bill Clintons - people who are still out there able to work.

  Lance Armstrong

  Athlete, People, Community

  Interview with Dan Roan, www.bbc.com. January 26, 2015.

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• Everything in my life is in perspective. OK, perspective ebbs and flows. I've had bad days, but they weren't in the last years. A bad day is 2 October 1996: 'We've got bad news for you, you've got advanced testicular cancer and you've got a coin's toss chance of survival.' That's a bad day.

  Lance Armstrong

  Bad Day, Years, Ebb And Flow

  "Lance Armstrong interview: An abridged transcript". Interview with Dan Roan, www.bbc.com. January 26, 2015.

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• I'm not sure I'd classify any topics as off-limits, but I don't look for new territories to offend. There's my joke about when my roommate beat cancer. People talk about cancer survivors like they're warriors, but from where I was sitting, she was just watching television and eating soup. Like, did she go to war? No. She kind of just sat around.

  Amy Schumer

  War, People, Topics

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• Being a breast cancer survivor, as I like to call myself - it will be twenty years next year - I did it to make it possible for women to do regular self breast examinations. It's really important - and, it makes common sense: you know your body better than the doctor does who only sees you once a year, you know?

  Olivia Newton-John

  Self, Years, Doctors

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• The idea is to encourage men to go with their wives and screen. So, if the wife is going to go and do her screening, then the man can go and do his baseline screening, too. Men need to be aware of the health of their bodies, as well - prostate cancer and breast cancer are almost on the same level.

  Olivia Newton-John

  Men, Ideas, Wife

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• I always used to say to myself, I'm going to die of lung cancer. That's the choice I'm making.

  Clive Owen

  Choices, Used, Dies

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Breast cancer alone kills some 458,000 people each year, according to the World Health Organization, mainly in low- and middle-income countries. It has got to be a priority to ensure that more women can access gene testing and lifesaving preventive treatment, whatever their means and background, wherever they live.

  Angelina Jolie

  Country, Mean, Years

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