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" Once I overcame breast cancer, I wasn't afraid of anything anymore. "
Melissa Etheridge
Breast Cancer
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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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" 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. "
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" Laughing is a medicine. It releases this amazing stuff. "
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" Chemotherapy tests your sanity. "
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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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" 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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" I don't think anyone masters parenthood. "
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" Gay people are born everyday. You will never legislate that away. "
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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 would never say I had a bad childhood at all. "
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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. "
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" I have found that I'm just political just by being who I am. "
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" My kids and I love to listen to Bill Cosby. "
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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 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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" I don't have a bucket list because it is my dedication to live every day of my life there. I don't have a bucket list because I'm doing it that day. I don't want to go to bed and say, 'Oh, I wish I had done this.' "
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" My friends have always told me that rock stardom was wasted on me. "
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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 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'm very fortunate that I have a wonderful family around me and loved ones. "
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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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" 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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" 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'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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" What people don't get is that hair is such a big part of our identity. "
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" I'm for gay marriage, because I'm for gay divorce. "
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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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" I've sold my soul for freedom. It's lonely but it's sweet. "
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