Parenthood always involves recognizing your child as separate and different from you. — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
“when describing children with Down's Syndrome, he called a child 'heart spontaneous'.” — 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
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
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
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
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
“Perhaps the immutable error of parenthood is that we give our children what we wanted, whether they want it or not. We… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
I'm attached to my children with whatever flaws they have, and if some glorious angel broke through the living room ceiling and… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
I felt like all of the work was training for just one central idea: Accept your child for who he is. I'm… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
One the one hand, the simple fact that there are children and that I do have an effect on them has been… — 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
When I was growing up, I kept hoping that I wasn't really gay because I wanted to have children. I went through… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
Labeling a child's mind as diseased-whether with autism, intellectual disabilities, or transgenderism-may reflect the discomfort that mind gives parents more than any… — 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
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 someone says: "I don't want to have a cochlear implant, because I want my child to grow up with a rich… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
I grew up feeling that to be gay was a tragedy. I didn't grow up thinking that it was morally wrong, but… — 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 the 1990s, Miraca Gross studied children who were radically accelerated, starting college between eleven and sixteen. None regretted the acceleration, and… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
Parenthood abruptly catapults us into a permanent relationship with a stranger, and the more alien the stranger, the stronger the whiff of… — 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
“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
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 spent years thinking I had to make a choice between being true to myself and being with a man and not… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
If some glorious angel suddenly descended through my living room ceiling and offered to take away the children I have and give… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
I think it would be great if in 50 years you could find out lots more about the conditions your child is… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
No one much wants to be belittled, but we tolerate slurs surprisingly often for ourselves; for our lionised children, we demand freedom… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
I would certainly not want my child to be schizophrenic. I wouldn't want him or her to be a criminal either. If,… — 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
In coming to an appreciation of the Mormon Church, one of the things that has been most compelling to me is the… — 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 Image
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 Image
A lot of people are very political when they are young, and then they outgrow it. — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
