Francis Collins

People who are in a position of finding out that they're at risk for some illness, whether it's breast cancer, or heart disease, are afraid to get that information - even though it might be useful to them - because of fears that they'll lose their health insurance or their job.

American Scientist

Frances Bean Cobain

I had a lot of strong women around my whole life who were survivors. My grandma survived breast cancer twice and the death of her child and the death of her brother, and, you know, just a lot of tragedy, and she's still the happiest person I've ever met.

American Artist

Georg Buchner

The death clock is ticking slowly in our breast, and each drop of blood measures its time, and our life is a lingering fever.

German Dramatist

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Ambition is so powerful a passion in the human breast, that however high we reach we are never satisfied.

American Poet

Kasper Schmeichel

One in 10 women will get breast cancer at some stage in their life and that's quite a scary thought.

Danish Footballer

Melissa Etheridge

Once I overcame breast cancer, I wasn't afraid of anything anymore.

American Musician

Elizabeth Hurley

I am passionate about talking to women about their breast health.

Actress

Brooke Burke

I don't want to discuss my breasts with the whole world!

American Model

Sharon Stone

I've had the same breasts for my entire adult life.

American Actress

DeAngelo Williams

I grew up knowing the importance of breast cancer.

American Athlete

Often emphasizes female anatomy as it relates to functions like breastfeeding.

Gender Specific

Breast discussions might be private; be mindful in social contexts.

Sensitive Topic

In cooking, refers to the meat from the chest of a bird.

Culinary Use

Considered a healthy, lean choice compared to other meat cuts.

Edible Cut

Used poetically to express deep emotions or feelings.

Emotional Metaphor

Infrequently used this way in modern language; sounds archaic.

Historical Tone

Describes facing something difficult with courage, metaphorically 'head-on'.

Metaphorical Action

Rarely used as a verb; found in motivational contexts or literature.

Idiomatic Expression

 It's on a spectrum. Besides your genitalia, you also have your chromosomes, your gonads, like ovaries or testicles. You have your internal sex organs, your hormone production, your hormone response and your secondary sex characteristics, like breast development, body hair, etc.

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 and permanent voice deepening in females. At the same time, excess testosterone-like steroids can cause feminization in males, because the body converts the excess into estrogen. This can lead to breast development and shrinking testicles. These effects are not uncommon—

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 The droplets combine with each other and other molecules and are then expelled and stored in spaces between cells. Mammary glands eventually secrete the milk through the breasts, udders, or, in the rare case of the platypus, through ducts in the abdomen.

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 She went through many months of harsh chemotherapy and painful surgeries, and then just as she was ready to jump back into the dating world, she found a lump in her other breast and had to do it all over again. Kathy recovered, though,

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 the girl does not know her beauty she chooses to believe that her eyes are dark and troubled no one told her evany was the color of the universe's wings she thinks her nose is too flat her breasts too small her legs too long in

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 great system as all the mob will help protect and raise the pups sharing babysitting duties and breast milk and teaching the youngsters the ropes the strength of the family is in numbers so

First Day Outside PIPE...

 If you don't, you're not alone. Because the breast has become a very political organ. The truth has become lost in all the rhetoric coming from the press, politicians, radiologists

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 rendered as dark-eyed maidens with swelling breasts or as a fair high present virgins yet all there is in the original arabic is that one word who is not a swelling breast or high

On reading the Koran -...

 breast cancer melanoma the cervical screws and wires and a replaced hip that's what I told her I said interested but she was persistent we'll scroll

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 There's this great scarab on its breast. There are gold hands. There are inlaid strips with magical formulae all over the whole thing.