My parents' usual reprimand was to remind me that I was not the Prince of Wales. — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
With children who have never said a word, parents tend to assume, for better or for worse, that there isn't any language… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
I had always wanted to have children, so it caused me a lot of grief when I was younger, and I had… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
I grew up in a very rationalist household. My father, in particular, came from that mid-century tradition of thinking science will ultimately… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
I had known a couple of people who had died, but the loss of my mother contained something of the profoundly unknowable. — 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
Parenting involves two separate activities. You have to change your child in that you need to educate your child and instill moral… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
I think it's up to the parents to determine whether what they're doing is consigning their child to difficulty. It's not as… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
Kids with Down syndrome are, by and large, quite affectionate and relatively guileless, and frequently, the attachments to them grow and deepen.… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
When I was born, the wisdom was that homosexuality was an illness; that it was caused largely by somebody's mother, and a… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
Fortunately for me, my mother loved travel. Our first non-beach family trip abroad - to England, France, and Switzerland - came when… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
I was in fact anxious about whether I would be any good at being a father. And then I met so many… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
While all old people have been young, no young people have been old, and this troubling fact engenders the frustration of all… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
The world changed, and the idea of having a family became feasible for homosexuals. But I was still left with the question… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
“Parents’ early responses to and interactions with a child determine how that child comes to view himself. These parents are also profoundly… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
“In retrospect, it seems obvious that my research about parenting was also a means to subdue my anxieties about becoming a parent…… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
“To look deep into your child's eyes and see in him both yourself and something utterly strange, and then to develop a… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
“In the heat of an argument, my mother once told me, "Someday you can go to a therapist and tell him all… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
I've chronicled the experience of the mother of a transgender child who got attacked by the Ku Klux Klan in Tennessee, and… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
My parents deeply and truly loved each other, and if my mother hadn't died they would have been together forever. They were… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
“John [the father] kept saying, "You have a penis. That means you’re a boy." One day, Shannon noticed that her son had… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
Philip Galanes has fashioned a novel both bleak and funny about a young man's struggle to sort out his troubled love: the… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
“I wish I'd been accepted sooner and better. When I was younger, not being accepted made me enraged, but now, I am… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
I had always thought of myself as fairly tough and fairly strong and fairly able to cope with anything. And then I… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
Latino kids are not rejected by their parents for being Latino, nor are most Muslims disowned by their parents for being Muslims,… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
“I’ll tell them all the good things and some difficulties. The parents may never accept what happened to them and yet accept… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
All parenting turns on a crucial question: to what extent parents should accept their children for who they are, and to what… — 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
![“John [the father] kept saying, "You have a penis. That means you’re a boy." One day, Shannon noticed that her son had been in the bathroom an awfully long time and pushed the door open. "He had a pair of my best, sharpest sewing scissors poised, ready to cut. Penis in the scissors. I said, 'What…” quote by Andrew Solomon](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/037/andrew-solomon-1140_gender_john-the-father-kept-saying-you-have-a-p_2623428.jpg)
