Quotes About Awareness

Fifty-nine cents. For years, I wore a button - '59 cents.' Many of my colleagues wore it also. The purpose was so that people would come up and ask, 'What does '59 cents' mean?' One could then launch into a discussion about how women working full time in the U.S. earn 59 cents for every dollar earned by men.

If we know it's happening, and we're not having the discussion, we're contributing to the problem of making it seem like people can't open up.

Consciousness is a disease.

I have had Crohn's for about 19 years. It is a debilitating disease that affects my colon.

Psoriasis is an autoimmune disease, and I'm sensitive.

Diabetes is a lousy, lousy disease.

The AIDS is a disease that is hard to talk about.

I really think the disease aspect gets lost when you're talking about alcoholism and addiction; it's not like you're battling leukemia or a heart problem; it is that.

I've always been very involved in anything that had to do with lung disease or cancer.

I burned out on AIDS and did no AIDS work for a couple of years. I was so angry that people were still getting this disease that nobody can give you - you have to go out and get it!

There are zillions of people who say that alcoholism is a disease, but not many of them believe it.

We need to think of chronic disease, hypertension, cancer, like H1N1. In fact, there's an epidemic of chronic disease.

I am particularly interested in Alzheimer's disease and have been for some time now.

Drug abuse is a very difficult disease.

Anorexia is a real disease. The choice you do have is asking for help.

The list of fun and easily-fixed brain diseases is very short.

I'd like to get away from diseases of the week.

If any group wants to not be disenfranchised, then understanding that there's going to be a learning curve for people who have disenfranchised them is important.

It's amazing, the number of people who don't have passports, who can't read, who can't write. It's sick actually. It's disgusting.

I won't eat past when I'm full. I think that's the problem some people have, they like a dish so much that they'll eat until it's completely gone and feel sick after. Me, if I feel full, ready, comfortable, I'll stop.

I think things are dishonest if they're not aware of sadness.

It would be disingenuous to say I don't have some sensitivity to the seamy side of issues.

I dislike the word 'self-help.' Self-awareness, yes, but not self-help.

I was never diagnosed with an eating disorder but I definitely had a difficult relationship with food.