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Laughing is a medicine. It releases this amazing stuff.

Melissa Etheridge

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Melissa Etheridge
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: May 29
Composer
Guitarist
Musician
Recording Artist
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
Leavenworth
Kansas
Melissa Lou Etheridge
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Medicine
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Laughing
Stuff

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When you realize that we're the spirit that's in our bodies and our bodies are like the vehicles that take us around, you realize that you have to take care of that body.
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I think the best way to be an activist is to live your life well and be honest. It means being out. If you are not comfortable marching, you can make a big difference just by working side by side with someone who actually knows you're gay and a fine human being.
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Don't let anyone tell you that you have to be a certain way. Be unique. Be what you feel.
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Realizing I was gay was a long sort of waking up.
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People ask me, 'Is being a parent the be-all, end-all?' And I say, 'Oh, it definitely is up to the person, and it is difficult, it can be very difficult, and it can be extremely healing.' That's what I have found, that the children are mirrors. Everyone is a mirror, but children especially because they're day and night and all day long.
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Be strong, believe in who you are be strong, believe in what you feel.
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I'm so close to Heaven, this Hell cannot be mine.
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I'm not one for big public displays of affection, anyway. Straight, gay, whatever.
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You are more powerful than you know you are beautiful just as you are.
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Video is a funny thing. It's one thing to be an artist, singer-songwriter, and use words and create pictures in people's minds. And then be asked to do video for it, to actually give a certain visual for your song.
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I've worked since I was 11 years old, playing music and following the dream, and shaking and moving and doing it. And then, you have cancer and it was like 'Ooooohh.' It was like a big eraser. It was the only thing in my life that had ever made me just stop.
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I am a songwriter. I do get to put my personal experiences in song.
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The sweetness is in having success with something you truly believe in.
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All men, and women, and everything in between are created equal.
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I had to go see the Glee concert with my daughter - oh my God, shoot me.
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I've sold my soul for freedom. It's lonely but it's sweet.
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To be completely stripped bare of any image power or my hair. To step onstage and get the response that I got blew any problems I had about self-image out the door.
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You are digging for the answers until your fingers bleed, to satisfy the hunger, to satiate the need.... And as you pray in your darkness for wings to set you free, you are bound to your silent legacy.
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I think Patsy Cline made country music classy. She just opens her mouth, and it's just heavenly.
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Mothers, tell your children: be quick, you must be strong. Life is full of wonder, love is never wrong. Remember how they taught you, how much of it was fear. Refuse to hand it down - the legacy stops here.
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