#aids

As for AIDS, it's a plague. We are human, we get plagues. They come along every so often, kill off two thirds of the population; in the next generation it's a quarter; after that it's a childhood disease. ↗

— Larry Niven

#aids #along #childhood #come #disease

If Carter had been there when the AIDS crisis came up, it would have been a whole different story. It could have been treated like a legitimate disease. ↗

— Jean O'Leary

#been #came #carter #could #crisis

Epidemics historically have tended to kill the very young and the very old, but AIDS is different: Those ages 20 to 40 are most affected, which means that so far over 12 million African children have been orphaned because of AIDS. ↗

— Marvin Olasky

#african #ages #aids #because #been

I lost a very dear friend who lived with AIDS for about 17 years. Rejecting early treatments that were iffy, he thought he saved himself. I really miss him a lot. ↗

— Bernadette Peters

#aids #dear #dear friend #early #friend

Maids want nothing but husbands, and when they have them, they want everything. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#husbands #maids #nothing #them #want

AIDS obliges people to think of sex as having, possibly, the direst consequences: suicide. Or murder. ↗

— Susan Sontag

#consequences #having #murder #obliges #people

AIDS occupies such a large part in our awareness because of what it has been taken to represent. It seems the very model of all the catastrophes privileged populations feel await them. ↗

— Susan Sontag

#await #awareness #because #been #catastrophes

I think we all realize that anyone can - and has - gotten AIDS. So there's obviously still a lot to be done. ↗

— Eric McCormack

#anyone #done #gotten #i #i think

Small aids to individuals, large aid to masses. ↗

— Maria Mitchell

#aids #individuals #large #masses #small

The message has become clearer to the nation about AIDS. People used to think they could catch it all kinds of ways, but we now know that it is absolutely passed through bodily fluids. ↗

— Loretta Devine

#absolutely #aids #become #bodily #catch