I do know that when my children are older and telling their own children about their grandmother, they will be able to say that she stood in the storm...and when the wind did not blow her way - - and it surely has not - - she adjusted her sails.

To be perfectly frank, there is an odd place after losing a child, where you think somehow your life is worth less.

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

The worst thing to me would be that you put on the face you think people want to see, and then they don't like it and you think, Would they have liked the real me?

Sometimes you get politicians who dig their feet into the sand and aren't willing to listen to another voice.

I want to reclaim who I am.

I'm not a victim - I never want to be perceived that way.