BREAST CANCER AWARENESS!
Hey guys, October is Breast Cancer Awareness month and in honor of all those who have fallen or are survivors of breast cancer I wanted to use The Fiction Fairy to help bring awareness to those in and out of my network!
Most of us have a family member, know someone, or even have breast cancer ourselves. Breast Cancer is a non discriminatory disease, no matter your age, race, or sex you can be effected. Yes, it is more likely than not to be a middle aged and or older women who gets the disease, but especially in recent years more young women and more men are being effected.
Every year we get closer to finding a cure, so if you can donate monetarily, your time to volunteer at the hospital, or participate in a run maybe this year will be THE year we find a cure!
Below are a few notable names of those courageous women and men who have fought and won the battle against breast cancer and those who have fallen, but whose memory we keep alive by continuing to fight for them!
Fought and Won
- Shirley Temple Black, American Oscar-winning child actress and former United States Ambassador to Ghana and Czechoslovakia, who is said to have been (in 1973) the first famous person to publicly announce her breast cancer diagnosis.
- Sheryl Crow, American singer/musician.
- Diana Dill, British-American actress; ex-wife of American actor Kirk Douglas; mother of American actor Michael Douglas.
- Melissa Etheridge, American singer; lesbian activist.
- Edie Falco, American film, stage and television actress.
- Catherine Drew Gilpin Faust, American academic, historian, and current (as of 2009) President of Harvard University.
- Deanna Favre, founded The Deanna Favre Hope Foundation and wife of American football quarterback Brett Favre.
- Dorothy Hamill, American Olympic champion figure skater.
- Betsey Johnson, American fashion designer.
- Melanie Johnson, former British Member of Parliament .
- Kylie Minogue, Australian singer, actress.
- Mary Ann Mobley, American actress, musician, and activist; Miss America 1959.
- Hala Moddelmog, American president and CEO of Susan G. Komen for the Cure .
- Olivia Newton-John, UK/Australian singer/actress.
- Sandra Day O'Connor, first woman United States Supreme Court justice.
- Nancy Reagan, former U.S. First Lady.
- Kathy Acker, American author.
- Margery Allingham, British mystery writer.
- V. C. Andrews, American horror fiction writer.
- Anne of Austria, mother of King Louis XIV of France and Philippe I, Duke of Orléans, wife of King Louis XIII of France, daughter of Habsburg parents, King Philip III of Spain and Margarita of Austria, sister of Philip IV of Spain, aunt and mother-in-law of Spanish Habsburg princess Maria Theresa of Spain.
- Fay Baker, American actress and novelist.
- Michelle Brunner, British bridge player, writer and teacher.
- Doris Coley, African-American singer.
- Joan Riddell Cook, American journalist and labor activist; founded JAWS (Journalism and Women Symposium) .
- Faye Dancer, former star of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League and the inspiration for Madonna's character in the film A League of Their Own .
- Julia Darling, award-winning British writer.
- Bette Davis, American Oscar-winning star actress.
- Helen Dewar, American journalist, Washington Post reporter.
- Sarah Dorsey, American novelist and historian.
- Siobhan Dowd, British children's writer.
- Shirley Graham Du Bois, African-American author, playwright, composer, activist and wife of noted African-American thinker, writer, and activist W. E. B. Du Bois .
- Elizabeth Anania Edwards, American lawyer and activist; wife of U.S. Senator from North Carolina John Edwards.
- Lacey Fosburgh, American author.
- Georgia Frontiere, American businesswoman; owner of the NFL team, the Saint Louis Rams.
- Patricia Roberts Harris, first African-American U.S. Cabinet Secretary.
- Klara Pölzl Hitler, Austrian mother of Adolf Hitler.
- Anita Hoffman, American writer and wife of former "Yippie" activist Abbie Hoffman .
- Judy Holliday, American Oscar-winning actress, comedienne.
- Trina Schart Hyman, American children's book illustrator.
- Pauline Johnson, Native Canadian poet and orator, born on the Six Nations Reservation in Ontario.
- June Jordan, African-American professor of African-American studies, poet and author of 28 books.
- Virginia Clinton Kelley, American mother of former President Bill Clinton.
- Susan G. Komen, American breast cancer activist; sister of Nancy Brinker.
- Nikolai Leskov, male Russian writer.
- Lorraine Hunt Lieberson, American opera singer; in 2000 her younger sister Alexis also died due to breast cancer.
- Juliette Gordon Low, American Founder of Girl Scouts of the USA.
- Shirley Ardell Mason, American artist who was the inspiration for the book and film about the woman with numerous personalities known as "Sybil"; portrayed onscreen by actresses Sally Field and Tammy Blanchard.
- Linda McCartney, American singer, activist; wife of Sir Paul McCartney.
- Dr. Jerri Lin Nielsen, American physician who famously biopsied and treated herself for breast cancer in Antarctica at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station, while awaiting evacuation, after discovering a suspicious lump on her breast.
- Ai Ogawa (née Florence Anthony), National Book Award- winning American poet and educator.
- Angelena Rice, mother of United States Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice .
- Rod Roddy, American male radio and television announcer.
- Ann Marie Rogers, British activist who won a lengthy legal battle against the British NHS to get cancer victims access to the life-prolonging drug Herceptin .
- Roxie Roker, American stage and television actress, mother of American singer/songwriter Lenny Kravitz.
- Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, American academic, educator, author and theorist in the fields of gender and queer studies.
- Dorothy Shula, wife of former American Miami Dolphins football coach Don Shula who founded the Don Shula Foundation for breast cancer research.
- Ricky Silberman, American activist who co-founded the Independent Women's Forum .
- Susan Raab Simonson, American stage actress and theatre producer.
- Abigail Adams Smith, daughter of U.S. President John Adams.
- Dusty Springfield, British songwriter/singer.
- Geraldine Warrick-Crisman, African-American television executive and former assistant New Jersey state treasurer.
- Dolly Wilde, Anglo-Irish socialite & niece of writer Oscar Wilde; diagnosed with breast cancer in 1939, died two years later.
- Chen Xiaoxu, Chinese actress and Buddhist nun.
- Kim Yale, writer and editor for multiple comic book companies, including Marvel, DC, First and Warp Graphics; wife of fellow comics creator John Ostrander.
