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

Melissa Etheridge

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

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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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" 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've been a rock star since you were very young. But I've never encountered anything as powerful as cancer. "

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" I have always loved Broadway. "

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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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" 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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" My ultimate joy and happiness is being a wife and mother. "

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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 stand before you a totally healthy person. "

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" I would never say I had a bad childhood at all. "

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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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

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

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" Love is never wrong. "

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

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" Cancer's like the ultimate excuse. Who's gonna say, 'Oh, no, you have to show up for this one?' 'Hey, I got cancer. I can't be there.' It's the ultimate eraser. "

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" I don't think anyone masters parenthood. "

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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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