If there is even one woman out there who went and got checked and found that she had cancer or she was positive and she caught something in time, and if in any small way I was a part of that, it makes me very emotional.

Almost always, the creative dedicated minority has made the world better.

I think that what happens when you lose a parent, where you lose – you drop into a different kind of serious.

I do not believe that government should be in the business of telling women what they should do with their bodies.

My – both my sisters died with pancreatic cancer. My brother died with pancreatic cancer. My daddy died of pancreatic cancer. My mother died with breast cancer.

I’ve never gone into business to make money. Every Virgin product and service has been made into a reality to make a positive difference in people’s lives. And by focusing on the happiness of our customers, we have been able to build a successful group of companies.

I have always been grateful to Colonel Longley. He proved to me that when people in authority take a stand, good can come out of it.

I wanted to prove the sustaining power of music.

Breast cancer alone kills some 458,000 people each year, according to the World Health Organization, mainly in low- and middle-income countries. It has got to be a priority to ensure that more women can access gene testing and lifesaving preventive treatment, whatever their means and background, wherever they live.

It is not sufficient to see and to know the beauty of a work. We must feel and be affected by it.

The worst days are when you feel foggy in the head – chemo-brain they call it. It’s awful because you feel boring. As well as bored. And stupid. And resigned.

Movies are fun, but they are no cure for cancer.

I’m interested in women’s health because I’m a woman. I’d be a darn fool not to be on my own side.

Cancer is still a word that strikes fear into people’s hearts, producing a deep sense of powerlessness. But today it is possible to find out through a blood test whether you are highly susceptible to breast and ovarian cancer, and then take action.

Every time I see documentaries or infomercials about little kids with cancer, I just freak out. It affects me on the highest emotional level… Anytime I think about it, it makes me sadder than anything I can think of.

Every woman is different when they go through menopause, and… I didn’t know emotionally how I would feel.

The internet could be a very positive step towards education, organisation and participation in a meaningful society.

I hated school. Even to this day, when I see a school bus it’s just depressing to me. The poor little kids.

A gentleman is one who puts more into the world than he takes out.

I always thought I would die of cancer because my mom and my dad both died of cancer. My dad died of osteocancer, and my mom died of colon cancer.

You see, I am trying in all my stories to get the feeling of the actual life across – not to just depict life – or criticize it – but to actually make it alive. So that when you have read something by me, you actually experience the thing. You can’t do this without putting in the bad and the ugly as well as what is beautiful.

If everyone does some good, think of what a good world this will be.

May we do good everywhere as we have opportunity, and results will not be wanting!

Sometimes when you make a film you can go away for three months and then come back and live your life. But this struck a much deeper chord. I don’t have the ability yet to speak about it in an objective.

We all live with cancer, whether it is present in ourselves or affects someone we love.

Ever since my colorectal cancer in 1999, I have been followed by the N.I.H. That was very lucky for me because they detected my pancreatic cancer at a very early stage.

I think women want to take care of themselves, and I think having a voice in how that is done is very important.

I certainly respect the belief of the Hobby Lobby owners. On the other hand, they have no constitutional right to foist that belief on the hundreds and hundreds of women who work for them who don’t share that belief.

Drones overall will be more impactful than I think people recognize, in positive ways to help society.

Contraceptive protection is something every woman must have access to, to control her own destiny.

We expect all our businesses to have a positive impact on our top and bottom lines. Profitability is very important to us or we wouldn’t be in this business.

Most women in my family start to get sick and start dying in their 40s, and I am going to be very happy to become 50 and 60. I love getting older.

The idea is to write it so that people hear it and it slides through the brain and goes straight to the heart.

One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.

I remember when I was younger, and in school, our teachers showed us films of plastic in the ocean, starving polar bears and so on. I cried through all the movies. My classmates were concerned when they watched the film, but when it stopped, they started thinking about other things. I couldn’t do that. Those pictures were stuck in my head.

‚Whole Women’s Health‘ made it very clear that poor women were no longer going to be left out.

It’s not that every single thing that happens on Facebook is gonna be good. This is humanity. People use tools for good and bad, but I think that we have a clear responsibility to make sure that the good is amplified and to do everything we can to mitigate the bad.

Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

I believe that if you have revolutionary potential, you must make the world a better place and use it.

I think it’s so important for girls to love themselves and to treat their bodies respectfully.

I’ve made my share of mistakes along the way, but if I have changed even one life for the better, I haven’t lived in vain.

We will never see a day when women of means are not able to get a safe abortion in this country.

I grew up hearing stories about my grandmother – my mother’s mother – who used to go to villages in India in her little VW bug. My grandmother would take a bullhorn and make sure women in these villages knew how to access birth control.

I’m taking special treatments for the cancer in my brain and in my liver. Part of the liver was removed, and they did the treatment on four places in my brain with radiation. And now I’m taking a long-term medicine that stimulates my own immune system to fight against cancer.

Women in particular need to keep an eye on their physical and mental health, because if we’re scurrying to and from appointments and errands, we don’t have a lot of time to take care of ourselves. We need to do a better job of putting ourselves higher on our own ‚to do‘ list.