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" My belief is that cancer comes from inside you and so much of it has to do with the environment of your body. It's the stress that will turn that gene on or not. "

Melissa Etheridge

Body

Belief

You

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Loved Ones

Family

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Five

Smoke

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Write

Happens

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People

Time

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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