“Forget about having an identity crisis and get some identity capital. … Do something that adds value to who you are. Do something that's an investment in who you might want to be next.”
“I need a heart so pure that if it's stripped bare by dementia, it will survive.”
— Alanna Shaikh
Alanna Shaikh: How I'm preparing to get Alzheimer's
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“The more things my hands know how to do, the more things that I can be happy and busy doing when my brain's not running the show anymore.”
— Alanna Shaikh
Alanna Shaikh: How I'm preparing to get Alzheimer's
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