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
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
There is neither a cure for nor a way to repair autism. There is no implant like there is for the deaf. — 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
I have always believed in trying to be a good person and giving to the world, and treating others in a just,… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
In these xenophobic times, when politicians are stoking everyone's anxiety about threats from abroad, I would argue that engaging with the rest… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
The only way I seem to be able to keep going while I'm writing is to munch my way through boxes of… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
Any community that remains an abstraction is an easy target for prejudice and cruelty, but any community that becomes fully humanized is… — 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
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
The way that Russian Orthodox services work generally, and certainly the way that this worked, is that it goes on for hours… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
Sleep is my great indulgence, and I get eight hours every night. Being chronically overtired raises stress levels in a bad way… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
Mild depression is a gradual and sometimes permanent thing that undermines people the way rust weakens iron ... Like physical pain that… — 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
