I’d never met Kate Spade, but I admired her as a designer and a businesswoman. Jennifer Ashton Read Quote
When I opened my solo practice, I made it a priority to put my patients’ experience first and foremost. This involves making them feel comfortable, both literally and figuratively. Jennifer Ashton Read Quote
The fact that data is always evolving is a good thing. It means that science is continuing, and we are always learning. Jennifer Ashton Read Quote
My media career came about by accident. In 2006 I was introduced to Roger Ailes, the President of Fox News Channel, by a friend of mine who was an executive producer. Ailes put me on the air one day, and one week later, I was offered a contract. Jennifer Ashton Read Quote
Let teens know that suicide is almost always the result of a complex mix of factors rather than a single event such as a breakup or bullying. It can be related to a sometimes undiagnosed mental disorder such as depression. Jennifer Ashton Read Quote
As a doctor, I was aware that when children go through severe trauma, they shouldn’t see their parents completely disintegrate because subconsciously, that tells them they have no one to take care of them. Jennifer Ashton Read Quote
You can be experiencing the worst, most gut-wrenching grief and still laugh or feel something positive or even fall in love, and it doesn’t diminish the depth and sincerity of your grief. Jennifer Ashton Read Quote
People who have gone through trauma need help with logistics in the short term. Jennifer Ashton Read Quote
Rationally, I knew these fears were ridiculous. There were no signs, unfortunately, and I would never blame anyone for another person’s suicide. But if everyone felt that way, there wouldn’t be this cruel stigma, would there? Jennifer Ashton Read Quote
But for me, a physician, chief medical correspondent for a major network, and women’s health expert, the thought of exposing myself to millions of people as someone who’d been completely blindsided by the suicide of my children’s father, and by the impact of that suicide on Alex and Chloe and me, was nothing short of terrifying. Jennifer Ashton Read Quote
