I want to reclaim who I am.

By what you do, you teach your children how to respond to difficult information.

If I had given up everything that my life was about ... I'd let cancer win before it needed to.

I can't turn on the television without seeing me, or open the newspaper without seeing me and, honestly, I'm sick to death of me.

Cancer is not a straight line. It's up and down.

I was an English major in college, and then I went to graduate school in English at the University of North Carolina for three years.

A lot of sad stories in a row - that wears on you.