Jessica Queller > Quotes

“We are living in an age in which scientific advances give us new opportunities to live. Seize them.”
― Jessica Queller, Pretty Is What Changes: Impossible Choices, The Breast Cancer Gene, and How I Defied My Destiny

“Cancer is like a terrorist attack from within. You’re going along, doing your thing, you know the threat of cancer exists theoretically, but you’re not thinking about it, it’s not coloring your life. After it strikes, even if it is ‘cured,’ you will always be on red alert, waiting for it to return.”
― Jessica Queller, Pretty Is What Changes: Impossible Choices, The Breast Cancer Gene, and How I Defied My Destiny

“I was not sad or afraid—I was indignant. How dare she smile and spew out those horrible statistics? And scare me with chemoprevention and prophylactic surgery? Mastectomy? Was she out of her mind? And how dare she make me feel like I was in some kind of danger? That was supposed to be therapeutic?”
― Jessica Queller, Pretty Is What Changes: Impossible Choices, The Breast Cancer Gene, and How I Defied My Destiny