Amy Robach Quotes

I am going to cut my hair very short; I've never done this before ... I want to say I had something to do with how I look, not the cancer.

I plan on ... encouraging so many women who are out there, who are still in the thick of it, who have yet to fight this fight, that you can do it, you can get through this one step at a time.

My husband, Andrew Shue, is the co-founder of Do Something, and we both speak and present at awards ceremonies. It's absolutely amazing and humbling to see all the work so many young people are contributing to better their communities on both a local and global front.

Telling my children was the toughest part. But that's when you get strong, because you have to be strong for other people.

After two rounds of chemo, I've started to notice, slowly, but surely, my hair has started to appear more regularly in my shower drain, sink drain, pillowcase and comb.

Having cancer is one thing; looking like you have cancer is another thing. It's a disease that already takes so much.

I made the choice to have the double mastectomy, and for me it felt like the right choice, and it turned out to be the right choice.

When I first sat down with my oncologist the day before Thanksgiving, and she told me I would need 8 rounds of chemo, one of my first questions admittedly was: 'Will I lose my hair?' It sounds shallow, I know, but it was a very scary image to me.

The broader question if Sarah Palin becomes vice president, will she be shortchanging her kids or will she be shortchanging the country?

'You have chickens?' That's what nearly everyone asks next, after they find out about our family pets. They just need to make sure they heard me correctly. Perhaps it's because I don't come across to most as a rural-loving farm girl.

What a remarkable reminder that none of us can actually control what happens. We can only control the grace with which we react.