“The first barrier is breaking the pattern of putting your head down, acknowledging that it’s okay to ask for help to get that assistance, that it doesn’t make you lesser than, it doesn’t make you less capable.”

“I basically decided for myself that this disease was not going to define me.”

“Something about that moment was just like, the light shining on me like, 'Wait a minute, I am no longer a cancer patient, I can walk away from this, and made me be able to look back and acknowledge the experience and acknowledge, yes, there was definitely a chance of a different outcome.”

“Even now, to this day, as a woman and as a survivor of sexual abuse, I am enraged that it still happens, and I’m enraged that my children have to deal with it. And there’s nothing I can do about it.”

“I was never going to let one thing be the most important thing in my life.”

“I am taking active steps to live the life that I want to live.”

“For all the mothers who are going to hear this, I think it's so important that, when you feel like something's not right, you may not have the actual proof that something's not right, but you should follow up on it.”