Catherine Gigante-Brown

Alas, I am the lone female in a house full of men. Only two men, but they take up a lot of space.

I’m boycotting you until you start recognizing breast cancer survivors like me by carrying mastectomy bras.

Being a little bit chubby is better than being a lot dead.

I asked a handful of women: why are people so scared of ladyparts?

The Daily News quoted one painted lady as saying, “People come up to us sometimes and say what we do is disgusting,” she said. “But what is disgusting about the female body? They shield their kids sometimes, and I think, ‘Kids come from the female body.’”

"I was afraid this thing was going to do me in. But I took a deep breath and decided very early on that I would face cancer on my own terms."

TCM (traditional Chinese medicine) has been around for at least five centuries –– there’s got to be something to it.

After I got over the initial devastation, I pulled myself up by my big-girl panties and got on with it. Chemo was no picnic—but it was do-able.

If the odds of getting cancer are like Powerball, why couldn't I be a scratch-off millionaire?

When David was about 12, he told me that he wanted to take the train to school alone. My gut reaction was, “No way in hell!” I mean, we live in a safe neighborhood and all, but David has ADHD and was easily distracted. What if he missed his stop? What if someone messed with him?