Today's generation are indoctrinated rather than educated and are virtually illiterate. Video games and text-speak have become their language and they can't even read cursive handwriting. Pitiful.
Gone With the Wind, because it is the greatest story ever told. Everything about it works and the characters are unforgettable for the rest of your life.
You have to leave it all on the paper and it takes a huge amount of courage to put your deepest fears and feelings on public record for the whole world to see. You become emotionally naked for the rest of your life to anyone who reads your book when you write non-fiction about something as personal as battling cancer wit no help from the medical establishment.
I want everyone with cancer to know that chemotherapy is not the answer and I want to make sure the family members I have that also carry the BRCA1+ genetic defect know they will not die from cancer. This was never just about me.
Susan B. Anthony because she helped everyone in America have the right to vote, regardless of gender, and a great force for freedom. George S. Patton because of the great stories he would tell about the war and the people involved and because of his irreverence to authority. Ron Turcotte because as a lifetime equestrienne, I have to know what it was like to ride the mighty Secretariat in the Triple Crown races and to win the Belmont by more than an eighth of a mile.
