Breast Cancer Quotes

“...in addition to feeling sick and tired and feverish and nauseated, I also felt forgotten. And there was no easy cure for that.”
― Sarah Thebarge

“It occurs to me that it is the very thing that made her that will be the thing to finally take her down.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

“I do not wish my anger and pain and fear about cancer to fossilize into yet another silence, nor to rob me of whatever strength can lie at the core of this experience, openly acknowledged and examined. For other women of all ages, colors, and sexual identities who recognize that imposed silence about any area of our lives is a tool for separation and powerlessness, and for myself, I have tried to voice some of my feelings and thoughts about the travesty of prosthesis, the pain of amputation, the function of cancer in a profit economy, my confrontation with mortality, the strength of women loving, and the power and rewards of self-conscious living.”
― Audre Lorde, The Cancer Journals

“Carmen stood at the altar wearing a hand-beaded, curve hugging, ivory silk and chiffon gown that fit so perfectly, it looked as if it had been sewn on her. The fact that one of the breasts beneath the silken fabric was not her flesh but a form made of gel didn't detract from the gorgeousness of Carmen the slightest bit.”
― Kathleen Cross, Schooling Carmen

“Scarlett lived by the (thankfully) ancient medical creed: If it tastes awful and smells worse, it’s probably good for you.
Julia wasn’t so sure about that. She lived by the edict: If it tastes awful and smells worse, leave it the hell alone. On the other hand, if it tasted good and smelled better, you either ate it, squirted it on your neck or fucked it.
It hadn’t led her wrong so far.”
― Amy Andrews, Numbered

“All the anxiety over small things had burned off me in the fire of reentry, the fire of being afraid I was going to die.”
― Jennifer Hayden, The Story of My Tits

“It had seemed like a good idea at the time, a sure-fire way to impress this girl, who was as cute as hell but wound tighter than one of his father’s antique clocks.”
― Ros Baxter, Numbered

“As an ex-footballer, sometimes surfer and wannabe rock star, Quentin had been fucked by cheerleaders, surfer girls and groupies, but he had never, ever been fucked like that.”
― Ros Baxter, Numbered

“[Karen Lundegaard] was quite frail, debilitated by metastatic breast cancer, which she had long known she had but for which she had been unable to get adequate treatment because she lacked medical insurance. (" If you mention anything about me, "she said," tell people that. ")”
― Amy Tan, Saving Fish from Drowning

“Results from a prospective study of 25,892 Norwegian women clearly showed that consumption in excess of 750 ml of whole milk a day leads to a relative risk of breast cancer of 2.91 compared with consumption of less than 150 ml with a relative risk of 1.0 [104].”
― Bodo Melnik

“I've been married forever, and I still don't have it right.”
― CAROL FELLER, Dancing through Minefields

“I LOVE YOU FROM THE WAIST DOWN, I DON'T DEAL IN DAMAGED GOODS.”
― CAROL FELLER, Dancing through Minefields

“The idea that there could be one solution to breast cancer- screening, early detection, some universal cure- is certainly appealing. All of us, those who fear the disease, those who live with it, our friends and families, the corporations who swath themselves in pink, wish it were true. Wearing a bracelet, sporting a ribbon, running a race, or buying a pink blender expresses our hopes and that feels good - even virtuous. But making a difference is more complicated than that.”
― Peggy Orenstein, Don't Call Me Princess: Essays on Girls, Women, Sex, and Life

“There is no such thing as false hope. There is only hope”
― Denise Stevenson, Aerobics In A Wig: A Faith Journey Through Breast Cancer

“I was dying and he had chosen to spend time with someone so completely unlike me. I saw my death not simply as a transition for my family but as my complete erasure from my family's life.”
― Elizabeth Edwards, Resilience: Reflections on the Burdens and Gifts of Facing Life's Adversities

“If feeling yourself up had been an Olympic event, I'd have taken home the gold medal”
― Beverly Diehl, Sex, Drugs, Rock 'n Roll, and a Tiara

“I've since learned that when you lose your same sex parent as a child, it's very common to believe that you, too, will die at the same age as your parent, or when your child is the same age you were. It's a kind of 'instinctive' knowledge, like knowing if you jump into your bed from far enough away, the monsters aren't allowed to grab your ankles.”
― Beverly Diehl, Sex, Drugs, Rock 'n Roll, and a Tiara

“We were blonde, but we weren't dumb.”
― Carol Feller, Dancing through Minefields

“I remember because I cannot forget”
― CAROL FELLER, Dancing through Minefields

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― Stellah Mupanduki, Be Healed From Breast Cancer

“If it takes a village to raise a child, it takes a bloody army to battle cancer.”
― Niyati Tamaskar, Unafraid: A survivor's quest for human connection

“Now move forward. It is not in death we should be afraid. It is in life, if we don’t live it. It is a gift.”
― Arlene M. Karole, Just Diagnosed: Breast Cancer

“Well, women with breast cancer are warriors, also. I have been to war, and still am. So has every woman who had had one or both breasts amputated because of the cancer that is becoming the primary physical scourge of our time. For me, my scars are an honorable reminder that I may be a casualty in the cosmic war against radiation, animal fat, air pollution, McDonald’s hamburgers and Red Dye No. 2, but the fight is still going on, and I am still a part of it. I refuse to have my scars hidden or trivialized behind lambswool or silicone gel. I refuse to be reduced in my own eyes or in the eyes of others from warrior to mere victim, simply because it might render me a fraction more acceptable or less dangerous to the still complacent, those who believe if you cover up a problem it ceases to exist. I refuse to hide my body simply because it might make a woman-phobic world more comfortable.”
― Audre Lorde, The Cancer Journals

“The greatest incidence of breast cancer in american women appears within the ages of 40 to 55. These are the very years when women are portrayed in the popular media as fading and desexualized figures. Contrary to the media picture, I find myself as a woman of insight ascending into my highest powers, my greatest psychic strengths, and my fullest satisfactions. I am freer of the constraints and fears and indecisions of my younger years, and survival throughout these years has taught me how to value my own beauty, and how to look closely into the beauty of others. It has also taught me to value the lessons of survival, as well as my own perceptions. I feel more deeply, value those feelings more, and can put those feelings together with what I know in order to fashion a vision of and pathway toward true change.”
― Audre Lorde, The Cancer Journals

“Grief, I’d only begun to learn, can be so startling in the morning, it feels like an ambush.”
― Cara Sapida

“Nobody craves normalcy more than us! If only it were so simple and easy to move forward, tossing a match behind you and burning the whole ugly experience to the ground. Burn the pink tchotchkes while you’re at it.”
― Cara Sapida

“The overcoming adversity tool isn't something you're born with, or would eagerly sign up for, but it was tossed into my lap like a gift. I promised myself I was coming through this experience stronger. I vowed to be unwavering with my dedication to mental and physical health after cancer. I envisioned a life of peace and I was reaching for it.”
― Cara Sapida

“My last chemo treatment was right around the corner. The enemy I'd pictured pulling a sneak attack on me was losing. My healthy-cell cancer fighter's were kicking in the swinging doors like an old Western movie and smoking those cancer cells one by one. They were doing the physical work; the least I could do was the mental olympics.

The unexpected gift of mental fortitude feels like a secret in the breast cancer sisterhood community.

Let’s vow to one another to accept positive energy only, including from our brains to ourselves.”
― Cara Sapida

“Cannabidiolic acid (CBDA) was first isolated by Israeli scientist Raphael Mechoulam in 1965 A research study conducted in 2012 showed that CBDA offered a potential therapeutic modality in the abrogation of cancer cell migration, including aggressive breast cancers - and for the first time the acidic precursor of CBD became a star in the fight against breast cancer.”
― Mike Robinson, Founder Global Cannabinoid Research Center

“Cancer is never invited and cancer never leaves.”
― Diane M. Simard, The Unlikely Gift of Breast Cancer