You know, I don't know if I'm going to make it to 80, but if I do, you're going to see one happy celebrating when I do."įor more information on multiple myeloma and research to find a cure. I will do that," she said, enjoying the thought. Now, her doctor teases her, she can worry about paying their college tuition. When she was diagnosed with myeloma, she worried that she would die before her grandchildren were old enough to remember who she was. "I think if you spend the money and have enough doctors working on this thing, it’s not luck, it’s investment," she told Gangel. Now, she hopes that she will inspire other cancer patients to keep fighting and for everyone to work to raise funds for research into cures. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University and was president of the International Institute for Women’s Political Leadership. President Clinton appointed her an ambassador to the United Nations Commission on Human Rights she also was a fellow at the John F. In 1978, she ran successfully for Congress, winning re-election in 19. She maintained a private law practice until her three children were all in school, then joined the Queens County District Attorney’s office as an assistant in 1974. Geraldine Ferraro makes a point as she accepts the Glamour Magazine 'Lifetime Achievement' award at the magazines 2001 'Women of the Year' awards in New York, October 29, 2001. She married John Zaccaro, a New York real estate agent. But before she became a Washington trailblazer, Geraldine Anne Ferraro was born in Newburgh, New York, on Augin the midst of the Great Depression. Only one other woman was in her graduating class. Geraldine Ferraro’s barrier-breaking vice presidential nomination will forever be etched into the history of U.S. At a time when very few women did such things, she became a lawyer, putting herself through Fordham University law school by teaching elementary school in New York City. Born in 1935 in the Hudson River town of Newburgh in upstate New York, she lost her father when she was eight and was raised by her mother, who was a seamstress. It should be."įerraro has helped pioneer the new treatment, which is in keeping with her life. When Ferraro was eight years old, her father was arrested and charged with operating an. Dominick Ferraro was an Italian immigrant who operated a nightclub in Newburgh, a small city north of New York City known to be wide open to organized crime. What bothers me is that what's available to me is not available to every person who has cancer in this country and it should be. Geraldine Ferraro was born on August 26, 1935, the third child of Dominick and Antonetta Ferraro. "Having to come in twice a week, that doesn't bother me. "It just is a very, very expensive thing to do, very expensive thing to do, and that's the one thing that bothers me," she said. Each injection of Ferraro’s drug costs more than $1,000.
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