Melissa Etheridge quotes

Melissa Etheridge is an American singer-songwriter and guitarist known for her powerful voice and confessional lyrics. Her music blends elements of rock, folk, and blues, earning her multiple Grammy Awards and a dedicated fanbase. She has also become an influential advocate for LGBTQ+ rights and cancer awareness. Here are 67 of her quotes:

There is no fear when you choose love. The more you choose love, the more love is in your life. It gets easier and easier. (Melissa Etheridge)
It was tough being a single mom. It was tough being in a divorce with children. Very, very hard. View quote
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Chemotherapy tests your sanity. View quote
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Once I overcame breast cancer, I wasn't afraid of anything anymore. View quote
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My ultimate joy and happiness is being a wife and mother. View quote
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I've sold my soul for freedom. It's lonely but it's sweet. View quote
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I feel my heart break to see a nation ripped apart by it's own greatest strength - it's diversity. View quote
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There will always be someone else with a different view than you. I appreciate them and would never say that they are wrong. I hope that they would give me that courtesy also. View quote
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Instead of taking five or six of the prescriptions, I decided to go a natural route and smoke marijuana. View quote
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Your own personal health is your own personal choice, all the way down the line. View quote
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I'm for gay marriage, because I'm for gay divorce. (Melissa Etheridge)
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. View quote
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I'm very fortunate that I have a wonderful family around me and loved ones. View quote
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Life happens, and I write about it wherever I am. View quote
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Love is never wrong. View quote
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Cancer's like the ultimate excuse. Who's gonna say, 'Oh, no, you have to show up for this one?' 'Hey, I got cancer. I can't be there.' It's the ultimate eraser. View quote
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I stand before you a totally healthy person. View quote
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There are many plant medicines that are available to us that have a lot of stigma around them that I hope, in the future, our medical community can look at, because I would absolutely go to those alternatives first before I went back to Western medicine. View quote
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What I do believe in is other worlds and spirits. There is some other power in control - levels of energy that perhaps we don't see. View quote
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On the road, as a 'rock star,' there's superficial attention and adulation is thrown at you for a couple of hours - then you're alone in your room and it's lonely. View quote
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All men, and women, and everything in between are created equal. (Melissa Etheridge)
We all want to judge; it's an intrinsic part of our society and human nature. I'm not surprised that talent shows are hits, but I'm glad some of them aren't so brutal. View quote
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I'm not one for big public displays of affection, anyway. Straight, gay, whatever. View quote
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I think I've been on a path ever since I was born, a path of high stress. I put myself, my career, it was a big old juicy carrot right in front of me for all of my life. View quote
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I am a songwriter. I do get to put my personal experiences in song. View quote
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Melissa Etheridge

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Photo: Angela George, CC BY-SA 3.0
Occupation: American Musician
Born: May 29, 1961
Quotes count: 67
Wikipedia: Melissa Etheridge

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