What makes a person is the ability to look at themselves and deal with their own lives.

My mum [who has breast cancer] is a fighter. I've got that from her, I know she's a fighter.

I'm not going to wallow in self-pity and not live my life. There are always going to be some falls in life for everybody, no matter what career you have. You have to roll with the punches and keep going.

No one should ever be ashamed of going to meetings. It's healthy, it's therapeutic and it's the right way to live.

I'm not angry. And I don't like the thing of the 'angry black woman,' either.

Gluttony? I could eat and eat and eat and eat and eat. I'd love to pig out on gluten. I mean, I'm allergic to gluten, but I really want to do that. I want to sit in bed one day and just pig out.

I dream of a world liberated of all diseases. Ignorance also upsets me a lot. How can one calmly look at the pictures from Rwanda and not instantly want to take action and try to ease the suffering?