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Share these short, powerful breast cancer quotes to encourage and provide hope for friends and family affected by the disease. 20 Uplifting Breast Cancer Awareness Quotes That Inspire Hope Skip to ...
Inspirational breast cancer quotes “Cancer survivors are blessed with two lives. There is your life before cancer, and your life after.
Former children’s laureate Joseph Coelho was assisted by the youngsters to write Courage Looks Like Me.
Shane L. Koyczan / ˈ k ɔɪ ˌ z æ n /, [2] born 22 May 1976, is a Canadian spoken word poet, writer, and member of the group Tons of Fun University.He is known for writing about issues like bullying, cancer, death, and eating disorders.
Slow Dance is a poem by David L. Weatherford which has been widely circulated under an email hoax letter. The e-mail claims that the poem was written by a young cancer patient, and that forwarding the email will raise funds to support the American Cancer Society. Both claims are false. [1] [2]
The poem is written in the voice of an old woman in a nursing home who is reflecting upon her life. Crabbit is Scots for "bad-tempered" or "grumpy". The poem appeared in the Nursing Mirror in December 1972 without attribution. Phyllis McCormack explained in a letter to the journal that she wrote the poem in 1966 for her hospital newsletter. [4]
Lucy Grealy. Lucinda Margaret Grealy (June 3, 1963 – December 18, 2002) was an Irish-American poet and memoirist who wrote Autobiography of a Face in 1994. This critically acclaimed book describes her childhood and early adolescent experience with cancer of the jaw, which left her with some facial disfigurement.
The Cancer Journals is a 1980 book of non-fiction by poet and activist Audre Lorde.It deals with her struggle with breast cancer and relates it to her strong advocacy and identity in certain social issues such as lesbian, civil rights, and feminist issues.