We need to acknowledge that families come in multiple shapes and sizes, that love is not a finite asset, and that caregiving… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
Fixing is the illness model; acceptance is the identity model; which way any family goes reflects their assumptions and resources. — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
I found it very comforting to see that there is no such thing as a completely normal family. People find their way… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
People who are different are constantly dealing with families who don't understand them. — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
Religion is so focused on family. These days, for many people, being gay is also focused on family. The Mormon Church is… — 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
The idea of anyone contemplating our family and witnessing the affection that we all have for one another and seeing evil in… — 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
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
“People with family histories of alcoholism tend to have lower levels of endorphins- the endogenous morphine that is responsible for many of… — 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 don't accept subtractive models of love, only additive ones. And I believe that in the same way we need species diversity… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
I did grow up in a household in which I felt that to be myself was to damage the people I loved. — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
“There is something ironic in prejudice against the disabled and their families, because their plight might befall anybody. Straight men are unlikely… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
I don't believe that there is anyone of faith whose faith would not be strengthened by those experiences of family. — 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
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
Religion is so focused on family. These days, for many people, being gay is also focused on family. — 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
