A lot of people are very political when they are young, and then they outgrow it. — 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… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
I had always wanted to have children, so it caused me a lot of grief when I was younger, and I had… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
I was overpowered by being in the world, by other people and their lives I couldn’t lead, their jobs I couldn’t do… — 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
Depressed people cannot lead a revolution because depressed people can barely manage to get out of bed and put on their shoes… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
I was in fact anxious about whether I would be any good at being a father. And then I met so many… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
Some autistic people may emerge from their condition, but nobody knows when and why. — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
It is important not to suppress your feelings altogether when you are depressed. It is equally important to avoid terrible arguments or… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
Listen to the people who love you. Believe that they are worth living for even when you don't believe it. Seek out… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
When you believe that you cannot stitch your own heart back together, go to work on the hearts of other people; there… — 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
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 you close down your borders, you're helping people build up a lot of hate toward you. That ungenerosity is not only… — 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 a church manipulates the law to say, "These people are lesser," it takes a lot of resilience to hold your head… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
People who believe that they are going to be excommunicated and shamed, or whatever other dark things may happen to them, are… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
I think what the Church should ideally do, and does appear to do in the context of straight relationships, is to support… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
One of the things that often gets lost in discussions of depression is that you know it's ridiculous. You know it's ridiculous… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
My risk tolerance is higher than some people's, but it's not nearly as high as some people's. I don't want to exaggerate… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
We see people of kindness, compassion, and possibly even faith being told, "Because of a characteristic with which you were born, you… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
Some people are trapped by the belief that love comes in finite quantities, and that our kind of love exhausts the supply… — 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
There is a false moral imperative that seems to be all-around us that treatment of depression, the medications and so on, are… — 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
