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An individual doesn't get cancer, a family does.

An individual doesn't get cancer, a family does.

Terry Tempest Williams
Inspirational, Cancer, Survival
Terry Tempest Williams (1991). “Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place”, Vintage

I write about nuclear tests in Refuge - "The Clan of One-Breasted Women." With so many of the women in my family being diagnosed with breast cancer, mastectomies led to one-breasted women. I believe it is the result of nuclear fallout.

Terry Tempest Williams
Cancer, Believe, Writing
Terry Tempest Williams (2006). “A voice in the wilderness: conversations with Terry Tempest Williams”, Utah State Univ Pr

I can tell that in Refuge the question that was burning in me was, how do we find refuge in change? Everything around me that was familiar had been turned inside out with my mother's diagnosis of ovarian cancer and with the Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge being flooded.

Terry Tempest Williams
Mother, Cancer, Rivers
Source: www.scottlondon.com

I was extremely close with my mother and my grandmothers, we shared our lives - fully, honestly - and it was heightened as each succumbed to cancer. Little was hidden between us. No time. And what was hidden, turned inward. I made a vow to speak. Speak or die.

Terry Tempest Williams
Mother, Cancer, Inward
Source: therumpus.net

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