I would say that Lucy, 'I Love Lucy,' she was my idol.
The goal is to live a full, productive life even with all that ambiguity. No matter what happens, whether the cancer never flares up again or whether you die, the important thing is that the days that you have had you will have lived.
Having cancer gave me membership in an elite club I'd rather not belong to.
There is no real security except for whatever you build inside yourself.
Motherhood . . . is an act of infinite optimism.
[Motherhood is] the biggest gamble in the world. It is the glorious life force. It's huge and scary-it's an act of infinite optimism.