Resilience is accepting your new reality, even if it's less good than the one you had before. You can fight it, you can do nothing but scream about what you've lost, or you can accept that and try to put together something that's good.

Successful health reform must not just make health insurance affordable, affordable health insurance has to make health care affordable.

Those who need a champion cannot afford compromise, in the face of forces that are powerful, persistent and pernicious and greedy.

I am imperfect in a million ways, but I always thought I was the kind of woman, the kind of wife to whom a husband would be faithful.

I'm actually one of those people who get up energetic in the morning.

Everybody has their burdens, their grief that they carry with them.

I think that it is our intention to deny cancer any control over us.