Melissa Etheridge Quotes

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Melissa Etheridge

Profession : Musician

Birth : May 29, 1961

My belief is that cancer comes from inside you and so much of it has to do with the environment of your body. It's the stress that will turn that gene on or not.

Melissa Etheridge

Chemotherapy tests your sanity.

Melissa Etheridge

Laughing is a medicine. It releases this amazing stuff.

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Realizing I was gay was a long sort of waking up.

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The subject and the reality of having children came at the height of my career.

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I would never say I had a bad childhood at all.

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I think I've been on a path ever since I was born, a path of high stress. I put myself, my career, it was a big old juicy carrot right in front of me for all of my life.

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Cancer's like the ultimate excuse. Who's gonna say, 'Oh, no, you have to show up for this one?' 'Hey, I got cancer. I can't be there.' It's the ultimate eraser.

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What people don't get is that hair is such a big part of our identity.

Melissa Etheridge

I can look at cancer as a disease that picks me out and 'why me,' or I can look at it through love and say, 'This is a wake-up call. This is my body telling me: 'Hey, you're out of balance here. It's time to get in line with yourself.'

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I don't have a bucket list because it is my dedication to live every day of my life there. I don't have a bucket list because I'm doing it that day. I don't want to go to bed and say, 'Oh, I wish I had done this.'

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I'm one of those people that will say, 'My cancer was a gift.'

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People ask me, 'Is being a parent the be-all, end-all?' And I say, 'Oh, it definitely is up to the person, and it is difficult, it can be very difficult, and it can be extremely healing.' That's what I have found, that the children are mirrors. Everyone is a mirror, but children especially because they're day and night and all day long.

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Video is a funny thing. It's one thing to be an artist, singer-songwriter, and use words and create pictures in people's minds. And then be asked to do video for it, to actually give a certain visual for your song.

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When you realize that we're the spirit that's in our bodies and our bodies are like the vehicles that take us around, you realize that you have to take care of that body.

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I have days when I say, 'I'm going to have five chocolate chip cookies today.' I'll have a salad every day but every week I have a cheat day.

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I have a very strong opinions about health and our responsibility to our own health, and I will always say what I feel.

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My wife works harder than anyone else with the children around the house. I make the money, sure, but she does everything else.

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My ultimate joy and happiness is being a wife and mother.

Melissa Etheridge

I don't think anyone masters parenthood.

Melissa Etheridge