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Elisabeth Motsinger, a physician's assistant and Democratic candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives from North Carolina, filed as a candidate for U.S. Congress on Feb. 14, 2012. "I chose to file on Valentine's Day," Motsinger said, "because I love North Carolina and I love this country. As we face our current economic and political challenges, we should return to the values that made this nation great."
In anticipation of the November 6 congressional elections, HuffPost Women caught up with her about who she is, why she's running and how to get involved with her campaign.
What's your favorite quality in another person?
Kindness, then smarts.
What three words best describe you?
Thoughtful, compassionate and determined. And funny. That's four.
What's your biggest flaw?
I have trouble believing the worst of others.
What failure are you most grateful for?
It's not a failure, but I learned so much from getting pregnant and having my son as a single mom when I was 20. I grew up really quickly and learned how to survive in difficult circumstances.
If you weren't you, who would you be?
I have done most of what I wanted to do so I don't have an answer to this question.
If you could live anywhere, where would that be?
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Today’s lesson: don’t be yourself!
You’ve heard it and so have I, “Just be yourself!” But today, Elisabeth Motsinger, a CCE student, told me that author and journalist Mignon McLaughlin said, “Do not be yourself, be someone a little nicer!” Isn’t that great? If everyone got up everyday and decided not to be ourselves, but be just a bit nicer, I think things here at Guilford, Greensboro and quite possibly the world, would be just a little bit better.
If you spend five minutes with Motsinger, you will hear more than just that tidbit of wisdom. I met Motsinger during the fall semester in our feminist theology class. At the end of the semester, Motsinger and I, along with two other women, led the class in a closing ritual that reflected some of the things we had learned about feminist theologies.
During the ritual, we gave out scrap pieces of paper. We asked everyone to write down one word or phrase that would describe something they had learned about themselves that they would like to change. We placed the pieces of paper into a pottery bowl and then burned them. The burning of the paper symbolized our ability to grow, to be different and to move past obstacles.
I don’t know what anyone else wrote, but I wrote down “