"When women got the vote, they did not redefine voting. When African-Americans got the right to sit at a lunch counter alongside white people, they did not redefine eating out. They were simply invited to the table. That is all we want to do; we have no desire to change marriage. We want to be entitled to not only the same privileges but the same responsibilities as straight people"

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Source : "Gay Marriage and the Law" by Nick Traverse, www.newyorker.com. October 2, 2010.

Cynthia Nixon

#Responsibility Quotes #Gay Quotes #Lunch Quotes

“It's part of what we call the Shadow, all the dark parts of us we can't face. It's the thing that, if we don't deal with it, eventually poisons our lives.”

Source : Michael Gruber (2010). “The Good Son”, p.134, Atlantic Books Ltd
“Man can learn nothing unless he proceeds from the known to the unknown.”

Source : Bulletin of New York Academy of Medicine, Volume IV, 1928.
“We hate Slowdive more than we hate Hitler.”
“I don't think that any Icelandic filmmaker feels like he belongs to Icelandic filmmaking, because nobody really knows what it is.”

Source : Source: www.indiewire.com
“In my experience, it's not just that serious books get a hearing on comedy shows. But serious books get a serious hearing, as well as a funny one, on comedy shows.”
“There is a foolish corner in the brain of the wisest man.”
“I strive to express the spiritual nature of the Universe. Painting for me is a dynamic balance and wholeness of life; it is mysterious and transcending, yet solid and real.”
“Any faith in Him, however small, is better than any belief about Him, however great.”

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