When the Nobel award came my way it also gave me an opportunity to do something immediate and practical about my old obsessions including literacy basic health care and gender equity aimed specifically at India and Bangladesh.
If you look at things that really affect people's lives - sport the arts charities - they were always at the back of the queue for government money - health social security defence pensions were all way ahead. And each of those areas - sports the arts the lottery - got relatively petty cash from the government.
Oh my gosh I feel like I'm really obsessive about anything dealing with my health.
The idea of making access to safe abortions harder and more expensive and more difficult having to travel across state lines - that puts women's health and lives in jeopardy which is something I think no one wants.
There are all kinds of things you can do to marry literacy with health.
I'm 58 years old and I just went through 8 back surgeries. They started cutting on me in February 2009 and I was basically bed ridden for almost two years. I got a real dose of reality that if you don't have your health you don't have anything.
Well the truth is that a lot of people lie about their health they lie about the finances they lie about things at work they lie about things.
Nothing is more capable of troubling our reason and consuming our health than secret notions of jealousy in solitude.
One of the things I like best about 'Biggest Loser' is being around people who are trying to make the right choices. When you feel defeated about your weight and your health like there's no hope and you still make the choice to fight for it to make the change happen no matter what people say or think that's inspiring to me.
To help the poor to a capacity for action and liberty is something essential for one's own health as well as theirs: there is a needful gift they have to offer which cannot be offered so long as they are confined by poverty.
If you like the health insurance that you have you should be able to keep it but if you don't like the health insurance you have you should be able to choose something else.
I think health is another exceedingly important thing.
When I was on Broadway I got really sick with walking pneumonia. I decided not to take my health for granted anymore and make it a priority. The great thing is the pounds just started to fall off.
Competition makes things come out right. Well what does that mean in health care? More hospitals so they compete with each other. More doctors compete with each other. More pharmaceutical companies. We set up war. Wait a minute let's talk about the patient. The patient doesn't need a war.
I think the number one thing Black women and all Black people should be paying attention to is our health.
The preservation of health is a duty. Few seem conscious that there is such a thing as physical morality.
People in their 70s can still have incredible lives. Health is the most important thing.
One thing governors feel Democrats and Republicans alike is that we have a health care system that if you're on Medicaid you have unlimited access to health care at unlimited levels at no cost. No wonder it's running away.
Good health is not something we can buy. However it can be an extremely valuable savings account.
Take all that is given whether wealth love or language nothing comes by mistake and with good digestion all can be turned to health.
Health is the state about which medicine has nothing to say.
Sobriety and health is the greatest thing.
There's nothing more important than our good health - that's our principal capital asset.
When it comes to the health of our families Barack refused to listen to all those folks who told him to leave health reform for another day another president. He didn't care whether it was the easy thing to do politically - that's not how he was raised - he cared that it was the right thing to do.