Alyssa-Jane Cook quotes

“Breast cancer change you, and the change can be beautiful.”
-- Alyssa-Jane Cook

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“Not knowing all of the conventions of beauty, he [Tom Thomson] found it all beautiful.”

“There is a beautiful and life-enhancing alternative outlook that offers insight, consolation, inspiration and meaning, which has nothing to do with religion, and everything to do with the best, most generous, most sympathetic understanding of human reality.”

“Leif's frown eased and he slid his finger under my chin and gently caressed my jaw line with the pad of his thumb. "Pagan,will you do me the honor of being my date for Homecoming Dance?The prospect of not being able to hold you in my arms all night is heartbreaking." Mirand sighed from across the table. "Okay,that was beautiful.Why didn't you ask me like that?"she asked Wyatt. Wyatt shot Leif an annoyed frown. "Thanks,buddy.Next time you decide to break out your romantic side,could you do it alone?”

“I'm not sure what Essiac does to extend cancer survival, and for all we know it may not have this effect. On the other hand, it's not toxic and my patients have reported feeling good while taking it, so why not support them?”

“Cancer, like any other illness, is a bore.”

“It's a scary word, 'cancer.”

“Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon.”

Source : "Epigrams on Programming". ACM SIGPLAN Notices 17 (9), pp. 7-13, pu.inf.uni-tuebingen.de. September 1982.

“Giving cancer to laboratory animals has not and will not help us to understand the disease or to treat those persons suffering from it.”

“Women who have been recently diagnosed with breast cancer can learn a tremendous amount from women who have already been treated.”

“The only thing we have to fear is fear itself. So the only thing to really be afraid of is if you don't go get your mammograms.”