You see yourself as a good product that sits on a shelf and sells well, and people make a lot of money out of you.

I remember when I used to sit on hospital beds and hold people s hands, people used to be shocked because they d never seen this before. To me it was quite normal.

I desperately loved my husband and I wanted to share everything together, and I thought that we were a very good team.

... I'm much closer to the people at the bottom than the people at the top, and the latter won't forgive me for it.

It has always been my concern to touch people with leprosy, trying to show in a simple action that they are not reviled, nor are we repulsed.

The worse illness of our time, is that so many people have to suffer from never being loved

Everybody knew about the bulimia in the family. And they all blamed the failure of the marriage on the bulimia and it's taken them time to think differently. I said I was rejected, I didn't think I was good enough for this family, so I took it out on myself. I could have gone to alcohol. I could have been anorexic. I chose to hurt myself instead of hurting all of you.