Anyone who's lost someone to cancer will say this, that you have to struggle to try to remember the person before the diagnosis happened, because they really do change - as anyone would change.
Interpretation
This quote reflects on the emotional journey of remembering loved ones who have faced cancer and the changes that illness brings to their identity.
Mindy Kaling's quote speaks to the deep emotional impact of losing someone to cancer and the struggle to hold onto the memories of who they were before the illness. It acknowledges the fact that cancer alters both the individual and their relationships, emphasizing the importance of cherishing the pre-diagnosis memories while also recognizing the inevitable changes brought by such a life-altering experience.
In practice
This quote could be shared during a memorial service to honor the life of a loved one.
I get so worried about girls with body image stuff And I feel like I have been able to have a fun career and be an on-camera talent and be someone who has boyfriends and love interests and wears nice clothes and those kinds of things without having to be an emaciated stick. And it is possible to do it. In life, you don't have to be that way and you can have a great life, a fun life, and a fulfilling love life.
What I've noticed is that almost no one who was a big star in high school is also big star later in life. For us overlooked kids, it's so wonderfully fair.
I always knew I wanted kids, but when my mom passed away I was like, 'I want a bunch of kids. I want three kids or four kids, and I want to have that relationship again.' I can't bring my mom back, but I can have children.
I have a thick skin, which comes from being a not-really-skinny, dark-skinned Indian woman. I haven’t fit in every place, and so I’m kind of used to resistance.
Here's my feeling: For everyone, men and women, it's important to be a feminist. It's important to have female characters. It's wonderful for women to mentor other women, but it's just as important for women to mentor men and vice-versa. In my line of work, having Greg Daniels be such a great mentor to me is fantastic. Finding a writer's assistant, be it a man or a woman, and encouraging them to think with a feminist perspective, is key.
I’ve worked in television for 10 years straight. If I were a man, it wouldn’t be considered strange [to have confidence] at all.
A spiritual partnership is between people who promise themselves to use all of their experiences to grow spiritually. They use their emotions to show them how to create constructive and healthy and joyful consequences instead of destructive and unhealthy and painful consequences.
And when I think about that, I think that if nothing but being married will help a man, he's durn nigh hopeless.
When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but creatures of emotion.
Expressing our vulnerability can help resolve conflicts.
Men rarely worry about using or being used because all relationships work that way. A man perceives himself as owning and being owned by a woman. 'Use' is a dirty word only when there's an imbalance in the relationship.
Being LGBT does not make you less human.
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