Gilda Radner Quotes about Cancer

Cancer changes your life, often for the better. You learn what's important, you learn to prioritize, and you learn not to waste your time. You tell people you love them. My friend Gilda Radner used to say, 'If it wasn't

Cancer changes your life, often for the better. You learn what's important, you learn to prioritize, and you learn not to waste your time. You tell people you love them. My friend Gilda Radner used to say, 'If it wasn't for the downside, having cancer would be the best thing and everyone would want it.' That's true. If it wasn't for the downside.

Gilda Radner

Cancer, People, Important

Having cancer gave me membership in an elite club I'd rather not belong to.

Gilda Radner

Cancer, Clubs, Membership

"Psycho-Oncology". Book by Fred Goodwin (p. 2), 2000.

Cancer is probably the most unfunny thing in the world, but I'm a comedian, and even cancer couldn't stop me from seeing the humor in what I went through.

Gilda Radner

Happiness, Laughter, Cancer

The goal is to live a full, productive life even with all that ambiguity. No matter what happens, whether the cancer never flares up again or whether you die, the important thing is that the days that you have had you will have lived.

Gilda Radner

Inspirational, Encouraging, Cancer