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One of the reasons I survived as well as I did was my genetics. My mother and father both had very tough lives, and boy, were they survivors.

I'm very lucky and very fortunate to have survived and to still be working after 45 years.

I'm a survivor - a living example of what people can go through and survive.

I've lived through a lifetime of crises and survived.

I've had injuries in my life from things beyond my control: runaway horses, helicopters that decide to crash on mountaintops, boating accidents - things that were out of my hands.

I was 24 years old and stuck in a strange place with two boisterous little boys, and my husband was working offshore on the oil rigs. It was a life for which I wasn't prepared.

I was a lifeguard, camp counselor, the president of the YMCA Leaders Corps. I also took piano lessons. I was a dancer.

My father's a firefighter. He was my whole life. And my brother-in-law and several family members are firefighters.

I was a fixer, a builder - an inventor - ever since I can remember.

I lost my mother and my brother when I was 15 in two separate car accidents. I was doing well at school. I was a good sportsperson, but at that point, I gave up on all of those things that were there to be done. I couldn't deal with them.