"It must be those brief moments when nothing has happened - nor is going to. Tiny moments, like islands in the ocean beyond the grey continent of our ordinary days. There, sometimes, you meet your own heart like someone you've never known."

-- Hans BÃ¸rli

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“The question was asked, how can you be a mother and a congresswoman? I said, I have a brain, I have a uterus and they both work.”
“You know like it has its own personality, its own character.”
“Sometimes it's hard to accept one's inner weirdo.”
“At 60, the mind was sharp but the body complained. The legs were willing to make all the right moves but the muscles gave out too early.”

Source : "At Home With Myself in a World of AIDS" by David Mixner, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 1, 2011.
“Itâ€™s hard to stay away from religion when you mess with acid.”
“Let every woman ask herself: "Why am I the slave of man? Why is my brain said not to be the equal of his brain? Why is my work notpaid equally with his? Why must my body be controlled by my husband? Why may he take my labor in the household, giving me in exchange what he deems fit? Why may he take my children from me? Will them away while yet unborn?" Let every woman ask.”
“Our fates are in the hands of An Almighty God, to whom I can with pleasure confide my own; he can save us, or destroy us; his Councils are fixed and cannot be disappointed, and all his designs will be Accomplished.”
“Some of the best theorizing comes after collecting data because then you become aware of another reality.”

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