Dr. Edith Eger
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Medicine is important.
We have our blood, and that needs to be hopefully valid, tended to.
We have our environment, but the way you respond to the other two, I have a choice.
To respond or react.
When you react, you don't think.
Take a deep breath.
And if that doesn't work, take another deep breath.
Keep breathing because you cannot change what's outside of you.
You really are.
But you have power the way you choose to take the negative and turn it into positive.
Because suffering makes you stronger.
Suffering is part of life.
You learn from history, so you won't repeat it.
Yes.
That's why it's good to write a book.
Write a book.
People told me for years, write a book, write a book.
And I would say, I have nothing to say, I have nothing to say.
But then Philip Zimbardo one morning calls me and says, you know, Edie, the people who survived and are famous are all men.
We need a female voice.