Debbie Wasserman Schultz Quotes

You can't just take an aspirin and sit around and have 12 donuts and think, 'I took my aspirin so I'm not going to have a heart attack.' It's really important each person take personal responsibility for their health. You can't keep thinking that someone else is going to take care of it. You have to be part of the solution.

I have a very strong opinions about health and our responsibility to our own health, and I will always say what I feel.

My health is good and it's up to me to keep it that way.

And so to those who suggest that we are somehow 'harming' young women by encouraging them to take charge of their health we say this: We are not harming young women by educating them. We are arming them with information that they will carry with them throughout their lives.

I want to encourage women to take control of their health.

The awareness that health is dependent upon habits that we control makes us the first generation in history that to a large extent determines its own destiny..

Women in particular need to keep an eye on their physical and mental health, because if we're scurrying to and from appointments and errands, we don't have a lot of time to take care of ourselves. We need to do a better job of putting ourselves higher on our own 'to do' list.

The easiest time to cure an illness is before it is accepted as a part of the self-image.

You can't take good health for granted.

That's the biggest gift I can give anybody: 'Wake up, be aware of who you are, what you're doing and what you can do to prevent yourself from becoming ill.'

Positive health means becoming whole-heartedly engaged with our own health care. It means not outsourcing our health to the health care system. It means getting rid of the fear and paralysis we too often feel, and instead cultivating a sense of agency.

As a woman, you need to take control of your health. There's no harm in going in and getting checked out. Eventually, you have to ask yourself: 'Do I want to live at 100% or 80%?'

Taking care of your mental and physical health is just as important as any career move or responsibility.

When we are busy with the everyday bhag-daud, one fine day a health scare just stops it all.

Looking after myself is something I probably have to be much more conscious of than the average person.

When women take care of their health they become their own best friend.

I am in control of how I age, and I am in control of my health.

I want to encourage everyone to be proactive with their health and get checked out.

What I want people to do is what's healthy for them.

Your own personal health is your own personal choice, all the way down the line.

Like I said, everybody has got something they have to deal with health-wise, and everybody's human. I should look after myself better, but so should everybody, right?

Health is very important to me.

Effective health care depends on self-care; this fact is currently heralded as if it were a discovery.

But the real secret to lifelong good health is actually the opposite: Let your body take care of you.

You have to fight for your health and stay on top of it. Our bodies are meant to be healthy.