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
The absence of marriages will result in all kinds of financial burdens that gay people wouldn't face if they could get married.… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
If you don't want to have gay weddings in Mormon churches, that's fine. That's absolutely up to the members of the faith… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
Penalizing homosexuals does not save any innocent victims. The idea that God and the Church accept these people while they are celibate;… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
When I remember how unhappy I was in adolescence - about the fact that, though I wasn't really using the term to… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
When I was younger, not being accepted made me enraged, but now, I am not inclined to dismantle my history. If you… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
If I understand correctly, part of the objection to homosexuality used to have to do with the fact that gay people didn't… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
If the Mormon Church still supported polygamy, and if it appeared to be a system that was not exploitative of women, I… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
Antonio Gramsci said that social reformers should have pessimism of the intellect and optimism of the will. This means that one must… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
And I found out about the wonderful world of sign language. I suddenly realized: If we as a society recognize Jewish culture,… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
We cannot bear a pointless torment, but we can endure great pain if we believe that it's purposeful. — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
Absence does not so much make the heart grow fonder as give the heart time to integrate what it has not previously… — 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 got into my first serious relationship with a man when I was twenty-three. I had, before that, sort of a typical,… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
If you are married and you go off and have an affair with someone, if you are a husband who does that,… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
I do think that if the Church can see its way to greater tolerance, Church members will have greater exposure to gay… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
What has become clear to me is that it is not the inherent nature of being gay that causes such a reduced… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
The absence of marriages will result in all kinds of financial burdens that gay people wouldn't face if they could get married. — 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'm sure that if we had enough sophistication, someone could look at what my changes in brain structure were as I came… — 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
Exercise because it's good for you even if every step weighs a thousand pounds. — 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
I felt a funeral in my brain, and mourners to and fro kept treading, treading till I felt that sense was breaking… — 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
