Shelley Fabares quotes:

We need to appreciate how precious life is.

I think the years on 'The Donna Reed Show,' the years from 14 to 19, were so incredibly important. Donna Reed was simply an extraordinary woman, a woman of great strength, kindness, integrity and compassion. I am not trying to make her sound like a saint, but she had the most profound influence on me. I carry her with me today.

I was dying but suddenly had a second chance at living.

This is the kind of situation that can tear people apart. It tears at the fabric of your soul and can certainly tear at your marriage and ours has gotten only stronger.

They had to match blood type and meet all sorts of things I don't know about.

I waited with a beeper for a year and 10 months to get that gift.

I didn't have a dysfunctional childhood or young adulthood, but I was somebody who was very much raised to do what other people told me to do as a person.

I had to have a complete liver transplant.

It's a terrifying thing to be perhaps 16 or 17 and feel like you are a failure and a has-been.

I had to have a complete liver transplant. I waited with a beeper for a year and 10 months to get that gift.

One can't change one's life experience, but even if I could, I wouldn't change it because of all the wonderful things that have happened to me.

I was not a Mouseketeer, but a lot of people think I was.