The moral immune system of this country has been weakened and attacked, and the AIDS virus is the perfect metaphor for it. The malignant neglect of the last twelve years has led to breakdown of our countrys immune system, environmentally, culturally, politically, spiritually and physically. – Barbra Streisand
Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each slice. – Barbra Streisand
Why does a woman work ten years to change a mans habits and then complain that hes not the man she married? – Barbra Streisand
My biggest nightmare is Im driving home and get sick and go to hospital. I say: Please help me. And the people say: Hey, you look like… And Im dying while theyre wondering whether Im Barbra Streisand. – Barbra Streisand
From the point of view of the pharmaceutical industry, the AIDS problem has already been solved. After all, we already have a drug which can be sold at the incredible price of $8, 000 an annual dose, and which has the added virtue of not diminishing the market by actually curing anyone. – Barbara Ehrenreich
In the worship of Bacchus, we have sacrificed too freely…. Why not consecrate ourselves to the queen of the Camelias, and revel in the warm stream of sympathy that flows from her altar? In the liquid amber within the ivory-porcelain, the initiated may touch the sweet reticence of Confucius… – Okakura KakuzÅ