Off with the old and on with the new and never a second's thought between. Helen Hodgman More Quotes by Helen Hodgman More Quotes From Helen Hodgman She had six months at most left to live. She had cancer, she hissed. A filthy growth eating her insides away. There was an operation, she'd been told. They took half your stomach out and fitted you up with a plastic bag. Better a semicolon than a full stop, some might say. Helen Hodgman bags cancer growth Life's too short to be sat at home writing all the time. Helen Hodgman too-short home writing