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All Quotes by author - Shelley Fabares
" I can't think of my life without Donna Reed. She has been such an enormous influence on my life. "
Influence
Think
She
" I didn't have a dysfunctional childhood or young adulthood, but I was somebody who was very much raised to do what other people told me to do as a person. "
Young
Person
People
" I had to have a complete liver transplant. "
Liver
Complete
Transplant
" I had to have a complete liver transplant. I waited with a beeper for a year and 10 months to get that gift. "
Gift
Year
Transplant
" I think the years on 'The Donna Reed Show,' the years from 14 to 19, were so incredibly important. Donna Reed was simply an extraordinary woman, a woman of great strength, kindness, integrity and compassion. I am not trying to make her sound like a saint, but she had the most profound influence on me. I carry her with me today. "
Integrity
Today
Strength
" It's a terrifying thing to be perhaps 16 or 17 and feel like you are a failure and a has-been. "
You
Failure
Feel
" I waited with a beeper for a year and 10 months to get that gift. "
Months
Gift
Year
" I was dying but suddenly had a second chance at living. "
Dying
Living
Second Chance
" I was not a Mouseketeer, but a lot of people think I was. "
People
Think
Lot
" One can't change one's life experience, but even if I could, I wouldn't change it because of all the wonderful things that have happened to me. "
Change
Life
Me
" The chances of a child coming through as I did... the world is too hard. On the other hand, I would always encourage children of mine if they wanted to be in school plays and dance and sing. But I wouldn't put them to work. "
Dance
Children
School
" There is a bedrock decency to people in the Midwest. They are thoughtful and ready to help you if something needs to be done. "
Thoughtful
Done
Help
" They had to match blood type and meet all sorts of things I don't know about. "
Know
Meet
Match
" This is the kind of situation that can tear people apart. It tears at the fabric of your soul and can certainly tear at your marriage and ours has gotten only stronger. "
Marriage
Tears
Soul
" We need to appreciate how precious life is. "
Life
How
Precious
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