It seems particularly ironic that a church that at one stage, a long time ago, fought to redefine marriage should now be… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
Being in a marriage and having children is the greatest pleasure, but it is certainly not the easiest pleasure. It is not… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
Now, it's not that I think that being gay is the most amazing, wonderful thing in the world, but I have a… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
The absence of marriages will result in all kinds of financial burdens that gay people wouldn't face if they could get married. — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
I hate the comparative idea that you have to love your spouse more than you love your parents. — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
People still ask my husband and me which of us is the mom - which, as one lesbian friend pointed out to… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
It does seem to me, though, that there is a difference between the Mormon Church saying, "We don't accept gay people within… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
Gay rights are not primarily marriage rights, and for the millions who live in unaccepting places with no resources, dignity remains elusive.… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
If you are married and you go off and have an affair with someone, if you are a husband who does that,… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
One has to weigh all of one's values always in relative terms. On the upside, you get people who are not acting… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
If you don't want to have gay weddings in Mormon churches, that's fine. That's absolutely up to the members of the faith… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
The absence of marriages will result in all kinds of financial burdens that gay people wouldn't face if they could get married.… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
I started traveling out of curiosity, but I have come to believe in travel's political importance, that encouraging a nation's citizenry to travel may… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share
When I was born, the wisdom was that homosexuality was an illness; that it was caused largely by somebody's mother, and a distorted relationship… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share
A lot of people are very political when they are young, and then they outgrow it. — Andrew Solomon Copy Share
Having always imagined myself in a fairly slim minority, I suddenly saw that I was in a vast company. Difference unites us. While each… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share
If your love didn't always contain the possibility of loss, it would be very different from human love as we know it. — Andrew Solomon Copy Share
Antonin Artaud wrote on one of his drawings, "Never real and always true," and that is how depression feels. You know that it is… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share
I met people on college campuses who were defining themselves as genderqueer to express revolutionary feelings, or to communicate their individuality; they were gender… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share
“In the throws of depression, one reaches a strange point at which it is impossible to see the line between ones own theatricality and… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share
“Since I am writing a book about depression, I am often asked in social situations to describe my own experiences, and I usually end… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share
One the one hand, the simple fact that there are children and that I do have an effect on them has been one of… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share
I grew up feeling that to be gay was a tragedy. I didn't grow up thinking that it was morally wrong, but I grew… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share
We need to acknowledge that families come in multiple shapes and sizes, that love is not a finite asset, and that caregiving involves more… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share
I had always wanted to have children, so it caused me a lot of grief when I was younger, and I had supposed that… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share
