Barbara Brenner
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"Barbara Brenner" was a renowned American breast cancer activist, after activist and legal work on several other causes, including anti-Vietnam War activism, women's rights, civil rights, and employment discrimination. She led the organization Breast Cancer Action, which critiqued orthodoxy regarding the cancer, of which she was also a survivor. She was partners for 38 years with Suzanne Lampert, her partner since graduate school at Princeton University. She died at the age of 61 on May 10, 2013.

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I have no idea what's going to happen to me. This is a disease that can and does happen at any time. It's not five years ? and a cure.

One third of all women who are diagnosed with breast cancer have found the tumor themselves.

There's plenty of awareness. The question is, what do we do now? The answer has to be something other than to shop.

What might we know about these chemicals 20 years from now? ... We can't continue to pretend that as long as we don't know about any risks, we don't have a problem.

I have no doubt that there are things in the environment to blame. I don't know what they are, and nobody else does either.

When companies put pink ribbons on their products, they're no longer just selling a sweater or a watch -- they're selling the expectation that buying their product is going to make a difference in the fight against breast cancer. But the 'portion of the proceeds' that goes to breast cancer is all too often minuscule in comparison.

The medical community has us believing that if you get a yearly mammogram, and that mammogram does not show cancer, you're cancer-free. I'm proof that that's not the case.

It's called 'pinkwashing,' ... You say you care about people's lives but you're doing things that make them sick at the same time. We're saying clean up your products or stop saying you care about breast cancer.