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> [As a little kid in the late 1960s, I was afraid of the world. Even if I didn't get caught in the draft that was sending American teenagers to Vietnam, there was always the possibility of a Soviet nuclear attack.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andrew-solomon/as-a-little-kid-in-the-late-1960s-i-was-afraid-of-the-world-even-if-i/)

[Andrew Solomon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andrew-solomon/)

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## More by Andrew Solomon

> [“If you banish the dragons, you banish the heroes...”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andrew-solomon/if-you-banish-the-dragons-you-banish-the-heroes/)

[Andrew Solomon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andrew-solomon/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andrew-solomon/i-started-traveling-out-of-curiosity-but-i-have-come-to-believe-in/)

[Andrew Solomon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andrew-solomon/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andrew-solomon/when-i-was-born-the-wisdom-was-that-homosexuality-was-an-illness-that/)

[Andrew Solomon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andrew-solomon/)

> [A lot of people are very political when they are young, and then they outgrow it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andrew-solomon/a-lot-of-people-are-very-political-when-they-are-young-and-then-they/)

[Andrew Solomon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andrew-solomon/)

> [Having always imagined myself in a fairly slim minority, I suddenly saw that I was in a vast company. Difference unites us. While each…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andrew-solomon/having-always-imagined-myself-in-a-fairly-slim-minority-i-suddenly/)

[Andrew Solomon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andrew-solomon/)

> [If your love didn't always contain the possibility of loss, it would be very different from human love as we know it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andrew-solomon/if-your-love-didn-t-always-contain-the-possibility-of-loss-it-would/)

[Andrew Solomon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andrew-solomon/)

> [Antonin Artaud wrote on one of his drawings, "Never real and always true," and that is how depression feels. You know that it is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andrew-solomon/antonin-artaud-wrote-on-one-of-his-drawings-never-real-and-always/)

[Andrew Solomon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andrew-solomon/)

> [I met people on college campuses who were defining themselves as genderqueer to express revolutionary feelings, or to communicate their individuality; they were gender…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andrew-solomon/i-met-people-on-college-campuses-who-were-defining-themselves-as/)

[Andrew Solomon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andrew-solomon/)

> [“In the throws of depression, one reaches a strange point at which it is impossible to see the line between ones own theatricality and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andrew-solomon/in-the-throws-of-depression-one-reaches-a-strange-point-at-which-it/)

[Andrew Solomon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andrew-solomon/)

> [“Since I am writing a book about depression, I am often asked in social situations to describe my own experiences, and I usually end…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andrew-solomon/since-i-am-writing-a-book-about-depression-i-am-often-asked-in-social/)

[Andrew Solomon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andrew-solomon/)

> [Loving our own children is an exercise for the imagination.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andrew-solomon/loving-our-own-children-is-an-exercise-for-the-imagination/)

[Andrew Solomon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andrew-solomon/)

> [One the one hand, the simple fact that there are children and that I do have an effect on them has been one of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andrew-solomon/one-the-one-hand-the-simple-fact-that-there-are-children-and-that-i/)

[Andrew Solomon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andrew-solomon/)

> [I grew up feeling that to be gay was a tragedy. I didn't grow up thinking that it was morally wrong, but I grew…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andrew-solomon/i-grew-up-feeling-that-to-be-gay-was-a-tragedy-i-didn-t-grow-up/)

[Andrew Solomon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andrew-solomon/)

> [We need to acknowledge that families come in multiple shapes and sizes, that love is not a finite asset, and that caregiving involves more…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andrew-solomon/we-need-to-acknowledge-that-families-come-in-multiple-shapes-and/)

[Andrew Solomon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andrew-solomon/)

> [I had always wanted to have children, so it caused me a lot of grief when I was younger, and I had supposed that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andrew-solomon/i-had-always-wanted-to-have-children-so-it-caused-me-a-lot-of-grief/)

[Andrew Solomon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andrew-solomon/)

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