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" 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

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" 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. "

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" I'm so close to Heaven, this Hell cannot be mine. "

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" 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 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.' "

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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. "

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" The songs are inspired by my experiences. Sometimes they are more than my real-life and, conversely, my life is more than just my songs. "

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" 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. "

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" What I do believe in is other worlds and spirits. There is some other power in control - levels of energy that perhaps we don't see. "

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" In country music, there are certain female artists, like Gretchen Wilson, where you're going to find lesbians because they're responding to that more aggressive side. "

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" I've worked since I was 11 years old, playing music and following the dream, and shaking and moving and doing it. And then, you have cancer and it was like 'Ooooohh.' It was like a big eraser. It was the only thing in my life that had ever made me just stop. "

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" I have always loved Broadway. "

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" I think being a parent is knowing how to love. Sometimes love is discipline, sometimes it's humor, sometimes it's listening. "

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" 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. "

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" I think it has done us more harm believing in the huge differences between left and right, Democrat and Republican. "

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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. "

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" I adopted a healthier diet. I take at least a tablespoon of apple-cider vinegar a day. It's an old wives' tale, but it really is one of the best things you can put in your mouth. "

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" I'm not one for big public displays of affection, anyway. Straight, gay, whatever. "

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" What people don't get is that hair is such a big part of our identity. "

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" Laughing is a medicine. It releases this amazing stuff. "

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" 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. "

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" I have found that I'm just political just by being who I am. "

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" Once I overcame breast cancer, I wasn't afraid of anything anymore. "

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" I can be a rock star with a television show and still have a self-esteem problem. So it's nice to have your dad go, 'Hey Melissa, I'm proud of you - you're doing good.' "

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" There's a point when your tape of life runs off the reel and there's this stillness of your own - I got to know myself. "

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" My kids and I love to listen to Bill Cosby. "

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" 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. "

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" Christmas comes during a season when the Earth is in its darkest time. It's a holiday for the family and for everyone. "

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" I stand before you a totally healthy person. "

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" The subject and the reality of having children came at the height of my career. "

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" Life happens, and I write about it wherever I am. "

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