You have to pay attention to who you are. You need to know your family history as well as you can. It is important for young women to have preventive care. If you catch any women's cancers early it's the difference between life and death. Do you really want to leave your kids without a mother?
Interpretation
Understanding your family history is crucial for your health and the well-being of your children.
Cokie Roberts emphasizes the significance of knowing one's family medical history, particularly for women, as this awareness can lead to preventive care against cancers. She stresses that early detection is vital not only for the individual's health but also for the sake of one's children, highlighting the deep connection between personal health and family responsibilities.
In practice
This quote can be used in a family health awareness seminar.
The family is the basic cell of government: it is where we are trained to believe that we are human beings or that we are chattel, it is where we are trained to see the sex and race divisions and become callous to injustice even if it is done to ourselves, to accept as biological a full system of authoritarian government.
I would look at a dog and when our eyes met, I realized that the dog and all creatures are my family. They're like you and me.
My father had many, many veterans over to the house, and the older I got the more I appreciated their sacrifice.
My parents told me I'd point to a bed of flowers and say 'Pink. Pretty,' before I knew any other words.
There ought to be a hall of fame for mamas / Creation's most unique and precious pearl / And heaven help us always to remember / That the hand that rocks the cradle rules the world
One thing I know for sure about raising children is that every single day a kid needs discipline.... But also every single day a kid needs a break.
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