There are two types of grandmothers - the ones who feel relieved when they hear the first 'Let's go home' and the ones who feel hurt. The latter are definitely in the minority.
I call my parents twice a day when I'm away.
There can be life after breast cancer. The prerequisite is early detection.
My cancer allowed me to explore who I really was. Now I feel like a woman who's able to handle whatever life has dealt her.
Each and every one of us who is still lucky enough to have our parents has a duty to them. We do owe them.
I want all my pain to count for something.
When a person has cancer, the whole family really suffers with her.
A man's real faith is never contained in his creed, nor is his creed an article of his faith. The last is never adopted. This it is that permits him to smile ever, and to live even as bravely as he does. And yet he clings anxiously to his creed, as to a straw, thinking that that does him good service because his sheet anchor does not drag.
I'm really proud to have been in The Craft. I will always be that chick from The Craft, no matter what I do.
We may feel the pain of falling back from a level of affluence to which we have grown accustomed, but most people in developed countries are still, by historical standards, extraordinarily well off.
Being chosen doesn't come out of a state of fullness, it comes out of a state of emptiness.