Doe Quotes by Andrew Solomon

10 Doe quotes by Andrew Solomon

Andrew Solomon’s words on Doe, though only ten, carry his signature empathy and narrative depth. The short set provides a snapshot of how he weaves personal insight with broader human experience.

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Every organization does good and bad things.

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Penalizing homosexuals does not save any innocent victims. The idea that God and the Church accept these people while they are celibate;…

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If you are married and you go off and have an affair with someone, if you are a husband who does that,…

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Suicide is a crime of loneliness, and adulated people can be frighteningly alone. Intelligence does not help in these circumstances; brilliance is…

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I think what the Church should ideally do, and does appear to do in the context of straight relationships, is to support…

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I understand why there would be prohibitions on straying from monogamy because of the harm that it does not only to the…

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If I understand correctly, part of the objection to homosexuality used to have to do with the fact that gay people didn't…

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Absence does not so much make the heart grow fonder as give the heart time to integrate what it has not previously…

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It does seem to me, though, that there is a difference between the Mormon Church saying, "We don't accept gay people within…

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The absence of marriages will result in all kinds of financial burdens that gay people wouldn't face if they could get married.…

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If your love didn't always contain the possibility of loss, it would be very different from human love as we know it.

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I met people on college campuses who were defining themselves as genderqueer to express revolutionary feelings, or to communicate their individuality; they were gender…

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