Eve Torres Quotes

When a person has cancer, the whole family really suffers with her.

My mom was diagnosed with breast cancer when I was 13 and it was something we weren't really aware of as a family.

My entire youth was spent with an incredibly ill parent... I don't think you can grow up that way and not be marked by that experience.

My daughter lived with my wife being ill since she was 2.

My mom was diagnosed with breast cancer when I was four. And she was re-diagnosed when I was seven or eight, and again when I was 13, and my dad was very unhealthy, too. I was living on the edge of mortality my entire childhood.

The failure to think positively can weigh on a cancer patient like a second disease.

There are lots of dimensions to being a cancer patient. The overwhelming one is that it takes over your life.

People naturally want to know about what happened, about my leukemia. They ask the same questions again and again. And there have been so many positive conclusions, even through the bad times, that I don't mind at all to be reminded of my struggles.

I had what you could call a chaotic childhood. My parents divorced when I was 2; I went back and forth between my mom's and dad's houses for years. But, you know, my parents tried to do the right thing. As crazy as everything was, and as much fighting and everything, there was always a feeling of support from them.

Having cancer gave me membership in an elite club I'd rather not belong to.

My dad said, 'The thing that I was told that was really helpful was that I mustn't be afraid of the things I was afraid of when I was five years old'. The shock of his childhood had put him in this defensive crouch against the world, and he needed to know that he had a nice wife and kids and it wasn't the same any more.

Guilt is a poisonous illusion. Many languages don't even have a word for guilt. Sure, we all feel it. But we also get to decide if we're going to let guilt bring us down or not. Acknowledge the feelings, and then give yourself permission to let them go.

My daughters have grown up knowing all about my kidnapping and the case and what happened.

I don't watch the news. I get really emotional about it, and I carry that stuff with me for a long time.

Illness can make us behave in the most surprising ways.

From a child's point of view, there is rarely a great time for parents to separate, even if there has been a lot of commotion and fighting.

I had a really good childhood up until I was nine, then a classic case of divorce really affected me.

When you have parents who are a little out of their minds, somebody has to take responsibility.

My dad had a series of heart attacks when I was a little girl, and our world was shaped by these huge, traumatic events.

Some children are tackling tough times without the support that can help them because the adults in their life are scared to ask.

All of my life I have asked the question, 'Who would I be if I had grown up in a loving home?' And I have no way to answer it. I don't know if I would be placid and satisfied with whatever is around me - a happy, jolly, sedentary person.

As parents, you want to try to mitigate your children's pain.

MS is terrible for anybody, and all of the stories are important.

I was putting on a stiff upper lip and trying to fulfill the obligations I thought were demanded of me, taking over my father's role of taking care of my mother... and having to be the recipient of her confessions and emotions but of a delusional nature.

There are certain days I will get home, and something will pop up on my Twitter, and I will just cry about it. I get so overwhelmed that I get to do what I do.