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" I believed in Obama for social issues. I believe he brought our nation together and healed our racial divide. Martin Luther King's dream came true when he was elected. That's huge. "
Melissa Etheridge
Dream
Believe
Together
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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. "
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" What people don't get is that hair is such a big part of our identity. "
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Hair
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Our
" I have days when I say, 'I'm going to have five chocolate chip cookies today.' I'll have a salad every day but every week I have a cheat day. "
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Day
" I think I've been on a path ever since I was born, a path of high stress. I put myself, my career, it was a big old juicy carrot right in front of me for all of my life. "
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" I kind of thought when I was 30 that you're as good as your going to get. And that's not true. "
Melissa Etheridge
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Going
Good
" 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. "
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" I'm so close to Heaven, this Hell cannot be mine. "
Melissa Etheridge
Hell
Mine
Heaven
" When you grow up in one town and your life revolves around it, you are very aware of any darkness on the edge of town. That's because it's scary and it's inviting. "
Melissa Etheridge
Grow Up
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" My wife works harder than anyone else with the children around the house. I make the money, sure, but she does everything else. "
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Children
Money
She
" My friends have always told me that rock stardom was wasted on me. "
Melissa Etheridge
Always
Me
Rock
" I have a very strong opinions about health and our responsibility to our own health, and I will always say what I feel. "
Melissa Etheridge
Health
Responsibility
Opinions
" I tell people that anything that could ever happen to you on stage has happened to me. My clothes have fallen off. I've fallen off the stage. I've gotten sick - anything. "
Melissa Etheridge
Sick
People
Me
" Video is a funny thing. It's one thing to be an artist, singer-songwriter, and use words and create pictures in people's minds. And then be asked to do video for it, to actually give a certain visual for your song. "
Melissa Etheridge
People
Artist
Funny
" Weight isn't a factor in nutritional health. "
Melissa Etheridge
Nutritional
Health
Factor
" To be completely stripped bare of any image power or my hair. To step onstage and get the response that I got blew any problems I had about self-image out the door. "
Melissa Etheridge
Image
Power
Problems
" Instead of taking five or six of the prescriptions, I decided to go a natural route and smoke marijuana. "
Melissa Etheridge
Go
Five
Smoke
" I definitely feel we're moving forward. There's a lot more understanding... there's less fear and we're working on there being less hatred. "
Melissa Etheridge
Fear
Forward
Moving
" People ask me, 'Is being a parent the be-all, end-all?' And I say, 'Oh, it definitely is up to the person, and it is difficult, it can be very difficult, and it can be extremely healing.' That's what I have found, that the children are mirrors. Everyone is a mirror, but children especially because they're day and night and all day long. "
Melissa Etheridge
Healing
Day
Children
" Life happens, and I write about it wherever I am. "
Melissa Etheridge
Write
Am
Happens
" I've been a rock star since you were very young. But I've never encountered anything as powerful as cancer. "
Melissa Etheridge
Rock Star
Young
You
" Gay people are born everyday. You will never legislate that away. "
Melissa Etheridge
Born
Everyday
Gay
" When you realize that we're the spirit that's in our bodies and our bodies are like the vehicles that take us around, you realize that you have to take care of that body. "
Melissa Etheridge
Care
Like
Spirit
" On the road, as a 'rock star,' there's superficial attention and adulation is thrown at you for a couple of hours - then you're alone in your room and it's lonely. "
Melissa Etheridge
Rock
Alone
You
" I've sold my soul for freedom. It's lonely but it's sweet. "
Melissa Etheridge
Lonely
Freedom
Sweet
" Christmas comes during a season when the Earth is in its darkest time. It's a holiday for the family and for everyone. "
Melissa Etheridge
Christmas
Earth
Family
" Once I overcame breast cancer, I wasn't afraid of anything anymore. "
Melissa Etheridge
Breast Cancer
Anything
Afraid
" We all want to judge; it's an intrinsic part of our society and human nature. I'm not surprised that talent shows are hits, but I'm glad some of them aren't so brutal. "
Melissa Etheridge
Society
Nature
Human Nature
" Our society, where we are right now, our minds are junkyards. We watch TV and sit on the computer all day and barely have an original thought. "
Melissa Etheridge
Watch
Minds
Day
" Chemotherapy tests your sanity. "
Melissa Etheridge
Sanity
Your
Tests
" I can look at cancer as a disease that picks me out and 'why me,' or I can look at it through love and say, 'This is a wake-up call. This is my body telling me: 'Hey, you're out of balance here. It's time to get in line with yourself.' "
Melissa Etheridge
Body
Time
Yourself