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
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
“But you are never the same once you have acquired the knowledge that there is no self that will not crumble. We… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
Your gender identity is who you are. Sexual identity is who you bounce that off of. — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
Treating an identity as an illness invites real illness to make a braver stand. — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
We don't seek the painful experiences that hew our identities, but we seek our identities in the wake of painful experiences. — 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
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
We don't seek the painful experiences that hew our identities, but we seek our identities in the wake of painful experiences. We… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
Forging meaning is about changing yourself. Building identity is about changing the world. — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
Identity itself should be not a smug label or a gold medal but a revolution. — 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
