Famous Quotes & Sayings

Farrah Fawcett

I'm holding onto the hope that there is some reason that I got cancer and there is something - that may not be very clear to me right now - but that I will do.

Farrah Fawcett

As much as I would have liked to have kept my cancer private, I now realize that I have a certain responsibility to those who are fighting their own fights and may be able to benefit from learning about mine.

Farrah Fawcett

Stress is what feeds your cancer. Stress is what gives you cancer and then there's the paparazzi giving you stress.

Farrah Fawcett

Cancer is a disease that is mysterious, headstrong and makes its own rules. And mine, to this date, is incurable.

Ezra Pound

USURY is the cancer of the world, which only the surgeon’s knife of Fascism can cut out of the life of the nations.

Eve Ensler

I think it was a realization of this cancer, an understanding of the broader implications of what cancer is. The greed, the ravaging of lands and seas for profit, the taking of things that don't belong to us; what we've done to the environment in this fast-paced, careless hunger. I think all of that was happening in my body.

Eve Ensler

Cancer was the most terrifying, arduous, painful thing, but it was also a profound gift in the sense that I was holding so much in my body for so many years that was dark and terrifying which was preventing my coming back into myself.

Eve Ensler

My relationship to the desecration of the earth was very theoretical and intellectual until I got sick. I could never watch anything about polar bears dying or the death of bees. There were certain things I knew I couldn't go near because they were too devastating. But I don't think until I got cancer did I get it in my body, what was happening to the earth. I finally went: "Oh! Earth! Organism!"

Eve Ensler

But my body was telling its story. I have read a lot of stuff about cancer. I needed this book. I wish I'd had this book when I had cancer. I wanted someone to be talking to me about "fart floors." I wanted somebody telling me what it was like to have a [colostomy] bag. I felt so alone. And if you're a person who's been traumatized [by past abuse], it's so potentially re-traumatizing. You slip right into "oh my god, this is the only person this has happened to before" mentality: "I'm especially bad and I have especially bad cancer..."

Eve Ensler

Look, you do everything in stages, right? I don't think everything happens at once. There are so many layers we are constantly chipping away at, down and down and down, closer and closer to what would be the body. I think what happened with cancer, was that I woke up out of nine hours of surgery and I was body. I was just body.

Eve Ensler

Why aren't we looking at the causes of breast cancer? Why aren't we spending our energy on looking at what we're doing to the earth? On the pollutants we're putting into the earth? And the pesticides we're putting into the earth? What we're releasing into the air? Instead, we just cut off more organs! That's where metaphor comes into it - not even metaphor as much as reality.

Eve Ensler

The minute someone tells you you have cancer, it's kind of like you die. You really do die. It's like you get that you're mortal.

Eve Ensler

I'm in good shape. My cancer means I have lost a lot of organs and I'm a lot lighter. I have devoted myself to yoga and I'm doing handstands.

Eve Ensler

Once you are diagnosed with cancer, time changes. It both speeds up insanely and stops altogether.

Eve Ensler

The cancer in me became an awareness of the cancer that is everywhere. The cancer of cruelty, the cancer of carelessness, the cancer of greed.

Eve Ensler

What happened with cancer was that I just became a body. There was nothing else but body for a month. I was chemo'd and operated on and cut and poked. At first it was really horrifying and scary, and then it was just,Wow. You're in your body. This is body!

Francis Collins

We are still working with an incomplete compass. The time is right to bring the full power of genomics to bear on the problem of cancer.

Jeff Gordon

Funds raised create hope for kids with cancer. Research is our top priority for discovering a cure.

Gro Harlem Brundtland

Cancers of all types among women are increasing

Goodman Ace

You know, my father died of cancer when I was a teenager. He had it before it became popular.

Giuliana Rancic

For me it was just more important to get the cancer out. With the double mastectomy I now have less than one per cent chance of getting it back, otherwise it was 20, 30 or 40 per cent chance and for me it wasn't worth it.

Giuliana Rancic

I have a new found respect for women who have been through breast cancer and this surgery.

Giuliana Rancic

Life's better now. I wouldn't do it all over again, though. It's funny how life works. Maybe it was meant to happen for many reasons, because my life in many ways richer.

Giuliana Rancic

Through my attempt to get pregnant through IVF, we sadly found out that I have early stages of breast cancer. It's been a shock.

Giuliana Rancic

I started realizing I could be an example for women to not just be aware of breast cancer but to act on it, to make an appointment, to give themselves an exam.

Gisele Bundchen

My two grandmothers both died of cancer, so I understand how painful and difficult this disease is on the entire family. My first grandmother passed away from bone cancer when I was about 10. It was really horrible. I remember the whole process like it was yesterday.

Iain Glen

I don't know anyone who's suffered lung cancer.

George Bernard Shaw

A conquered nation is like a man with cancer: he can think of nothing else.

Gale Norton

Dense overgrown forests and rangelands have grown like a cancer. They need to be treated.

Freeman A. Hrabowski III

It is exciting to work with students thinking about issues of the day, from closing the achievement gap to finding a cure for cancer.

Breast cancer, lung cancer ... heart disease is the No. 1 killer for women. We really tried to cater to those.

Even though management is saying the cancer trial was not a focus for them, it is never a good thing to have a failed trial.

Even though it's increased, it's still not as prevalent as colon cancer,