180 Quotes by Melissa Etheridge

Mothers, tell your children: be quick, you must be strong. Life is full of wonder, love is never wrong. Remember how they taught you, how much of it was fear. Refuse to hand it down – the legacy stops here.

Don’t let anyone tell you that you have to be a certain way. Be unique. Be what you feel.

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.

Don’t let people who live in fear and hate govern how you live.

Once I overcame breast cancer, I wasn’t afraid of anything anymore.

Everybody’s got a hunger no matter where they are. Everybody clings to their own fear. Everybody hides some scar – Precious pain. Empty and cold but it keeps me alive. I gave it my soul so that I could survive – keeping me safe in these chains.

Christmas comes during a season when the Earth is in its darkest time. It’s a holiday for the family and for everyone.

I had to go see the Glee concert with my daughter – oh my God, shoot me.

Cancer Is an opportunity to sit down and look into yourself and find the answers. Yes, it’s serious, but it’s not the end-all.