180 Quotes by Melissa Etheridge

I think being a parent is knowing how to love. Sometimes love is discipline, sometimes it’s humor, sometimes it’s listening.

I have found that I’m just political just by being who I am.

I believed in Obama for social issues. I believe he brought our nation together and healed our racial divide. Martin Luther King’s dream came true when he was elected. That’s huge.

I’ve worked since I was 11 years old, playing music and following the dream, and shaking and moving and doing it. And then, you have cancer and it was like ‘Ooooohh.’ It was like a big eraser. It was the only thing in my life that had ever made me just stop.

I kind of thought when I was 30 that you’re as good as your going to get. And that’s not true.

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.

I don’t think anyone masters parenthood.

Weight isn’t a factor in nutritional health.

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.