"We had great faith that with patience, understanding, and education, that my family and I could be helpful in changing their minds and attitudes around."

"Financial hardships were rough on us, even though Mom had a good job at G.M."

"Listening to medical facts was not enough. People wanted one hundred percent guarantees."

"Because of the lack of education on AIDS, discrimination, fear, panic, and lies surrounded me."

"Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family."

"My dad's not a very intimidating father figure."

"I grew up in Minnesota. Four generations of my father's people are buried there."

"The mother's battle for her child with sickness, with poverty, with war, with all the forces of exploitation and callousness that cheapen human life needs to become a common human battle, waged in love and in the passion for survival."