Quotes by Marcia Wallace

“I dont know what religious people do. I kind of wished Id been a Christian with the blind faith that God is doing the right thing. As a Buddhist, you feel like you have more control over the situation, and that you can change your karma.”

“I have a deep conviction that our lives are eternal, that it is waking and sleeping, that we are born together with the people we love lifetime after lifetime.”

“Be good to yourself. Listen to your body, to your heart. Were very hard on ourselves, and were always feeling like were not doing enough. Its a terribly hard job.”

“When youre going through all of this, the last thing youre thinking of as a patient, and especially as a caregiver, is to give yourself something that nurtures you and something that helps you not to get overwhelmed and burned out. Poetry, silence, walks, back rubs, or swimming, whatever, its the thing you need most, and its the thing you have to give yourself.”

“I asked for help, which is the hardest thing in the world.”

“There is no such thing as an unreasonable question, or a silly question, or a frivolous question, or a waste-of-time question. Its your life, and youve got to get these answers.”

“You know, this is a business where only 15% make a living wage and only 9% of those are women. But I figured somebody has to be that 15%, somebodys got to be one of those women.”

“I think illness is a family journey, no matter what the outcome. Everybody has to be allowed to process it and mourn and deal with it in their own way.”

“Nurses are my heroes... We dealt with a lot of oncology nurses... They are unsung and underpaid.”

“Being a caregiver is the most thankless role in the world. Everybody gives the patient some slack, as they should, but the caregiver has the stress of life and then you put a catastrophic illness on top of it, and the stress goes through the roof.”

I dont know what religious people do. I kind of wished Id been a Christian with the blind faith that God is doing the right thing. As a Buddhist, you feel like you have more control over the situation, and that you can change your karma.