Catherine Gigante-Brown

"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."

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

"Remember, this isn’t just happening to you, it’s happening to moms everywhere. It’s not your fault — "

sex sage. fetish specialist. author.

Re-imagining the cervix, preserving the earth, facing breast cancer a whole new way…Annie Sprinkle’s wisdom abounds. “Life is a performance art piece,” she said...

erotic. intimate. unapologetic.

To the tattoo artist, I was a flesh canvas that she could transform into something beautiful.

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.

The overinflated American work ethic is slowly killing us. It’s constantly pushing us to do more — put in longer hours, check business emails on personal time, take calls from our bosses when we’re chilling in Cancun.

From New York to LA, this lady knows a good story.