--- title: "15 Way Quotes By Andrew Solomon" description: "15 Way quotes by Andrew Solomon. Plus more from Andrew Solomon and more Way sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/31e/andrew-solomon-1140_back-together_when-you-believe-that-you-cannot-stitch_638552.jpg" --- > [When you believe that you cannot stitch your own heart back together, go to work on the hearts of other people; there…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andrew-solomon/when-you-believe-that-you-cannot-stitch-your-own-heart-back-together/) [Andrew Solomon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andrew-solomon/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/31e/andrew-solomon-1140_back-together_when-you-believe-that-you-cannot-stitch_638552.jpg) > [I do think that if the Church can see its way to greater tolerance, Church members will have greater exposure to gay…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andrew-solomon/i-do-think-that-if-the-church-can-see-its-way-to-greater-tolerance/) [Andrew Solomon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andrew-solomon/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/132/andrew-solomon-1140_church_i-do-think-that-if-the-church-can-see-it_2085555.jpg) > [I found it very comforting to see that there is no such thing as a completely normal family. People find their way…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andrew-solomon/i-found-it-very-comforting-to-see-that-there-is-no-such-thing-as-a/) [Andrew Solomon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andrew-solomon/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4bc/andrew-solomon-1140_comforting_i-found-it-very-comforting-to-see-that-t_328866.jpg) > [I have always believed in trying to be a good person and giving to the world, and treating others in a just,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andrew-solomon/i-have-always-believed-in-trying-to-be-a-good-person-and-giving-to/) [Andrew Solomon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andrew-solomon/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/437/andrew-solomon-1140_always-believe_i-have-always-believed-in-trying-to-be-a_1229334.jpg) > [There is neither a cure for nor a way to repair autism. There is no implant like there is for the deaf.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andrew-solomon/there-is-neither-a-cure-for-nor-a-way-to-repair-autism-there-is-no/) [Andrew Solomon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andrew-solomon/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a10/andrew-solomon-1140_autism_there-is-neither-a-cure-for-nor-a-way-to_800898.jpg) > [The only way I seem to be able to keep going while I'm writing is to munch my way through boxes of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andrew-solomon/the-only-way-i-seem-to-be-able-to-keep-going-while-i-m-writing-is-to/) [Andrew Solomon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andrew-solomon/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a40/andrew-solomon-1140_boxes_the-only-way-i-seem-to-be-able-to-keep-g_1600369.jpg) > [Any community that remains an abstraction is an easy target for prejudice and cruelty, but any community that becomes fully humanized is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andrew-solomon/any-community-that-remains-an-abstraction-is-an-easy-target-for/) [Andrew Solomon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andrew-solomon/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c06/andrew-solomon-1140_abstraction_any-community-that-remains-an-abstractio_1844877.jpg) > [Fixing is the illness model; acceptance is the identity model; which way any family goes reflects their assumptions and resources.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andrew-solomon/fixing-is-the-illness-model-acceptance-is-the-identity-model-which/) [Andrew Solomon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andrew-solomon/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8a3/andrew-solomon-1140_acceptance_fixing-is-the-illness-model-acceptance-i_202455.jpg) > [Mild depression is a gradual and sometimes permanent thing that undermines people the way rust weakens iron ... Like physical pain that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andrew-solomon/mild-depression-is-a-gradual-and-sometimes-permanent-thing-that/) [Andrew Solomon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andrew-solomon/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/935/andrew-solomon-1140_depression_mild-depression-is-a-gradual-and-sometim_3191322.jpg) > [I don't accept subtractive models of love, only additive ones. And I believe that in the same way we need species diversity…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andrew-solomon/i-don-t-accept-subtractive-models-of-love-only-additive-ones-and-i/) [Andrew Solomon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andrew-solomon/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ab0/andrew-solomon-1140_accepting_i-don-t-accept-subtractive-models-of-lov_2138022.jpg) > [In these xenophobic times, when politicians are stoking everyone's anxiety about threats from abroad, I would argue that engaging with the rest…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andrew-solomon/in-these-xenophobic-times-when-politicians-are-stoking-everyone-s/) [Andrew Solomon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andrew-solomon/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/639/andrew-solomon-1140_anxiety_in-these-xenophobic-times-when-politicia_1468060.jpg) > [The way that Russian Orthodox services work generally, and certainly the way that this worked, is that it goes on for hours…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andrew-solomon/the-way-that-russian-orthodox-services-work-generally-and-certainly/) [Andrew Solomon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andrew-solomon/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fd6/andrew-solomon-1140_american-woman_the-way-that-russian-orthodox-services-w_2667964.jpg) > [The absence of marriages will result in all kinds of financial burdens that gay people wouldn't face if they could get married.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andrew-solomon/the-absence-of-marriages-will-result-in-all-kinds-of-financial/) [Andrew Solomon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andrew-solomon/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c0a/andrew-solomon-1140_absence_the-absence-of-marriages-will-result-in_645976.jpg) > [One of the things that often gets lost in discussions of depression is that you know it's ridiculous. You know it's ridiculous…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andrew-solomon/one-of-the-things-that-often-gets-lost-in-discussions-of-depression/) [Andrew Solomon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andrew-solomon/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/aeb/andrew-solomon-1140_big-deal_one-of-the-things-that-often-gets-lost-i_916741.jpg) > [Sleep is my great indulgence, and I get eight hours every night. Being chronically overtired raises stress levels in a bad way…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andrew-solomon/sleep-is-my-great-indulgence-and-i-get-eight-hours-every-night-being/) [Andrew Solomon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andrew-solomon/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9ea/andrew-solomon-1140_bad_sleep-is-my-great-indulgence-and-i-get-e_2916366.jpg) ## Other authors on Way ## 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/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/way/andrew-solomon/#itemlist", "name": "15 Way Quotes By Andrew Solomon", "numberOfItems": 15, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "When you believe that you cannot stitch your own heart back together, go to work on the hearts of other people; there is no surer way to repair yourself than to repair them.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Andrew Solomon" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andrew-solomon/when-you-believe-that-you-cannot-stitch-your-own-heart-back-together/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/31e/andrew-solomon-1140_back-together_when-you-believe-that-you-cannot-stitch_638552.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/31e/andrew-solomon-1140_back-together_when-you-believe-that-you-cannot-stitch_638552.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/31e/andrew-solomon-1140_back-together_when-you-believe-that-you-cannot-stitch_638552.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“When you believe that you cannot stitch your own heart back together, go to work on the hearts of other…” — Andrew Solomon", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "I do think that if the Church can see its way to greater tolerance, Church members will have greater exposure to gay people, and the lives of those gay people will be better.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Andrew Solomon" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andrew-solomon/i-do-think-that-if-the-church-can-see-its-way-to-greater-tolerance/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/132/andrew-solomon-1140_church_i-do-think-that-if-the-church-can-see-it_2085555.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/132/andrew-solomon-1140_church_i-do-think-that-if-the-church-can-see-it_2085555.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/132/andrew-solomon-1140_church_i-do-think-that-if-the-church-can-see-it_2085555.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“I do think that if the Church can see its way to greater tolerance, Church members will have greater…” — Andrew Solomon", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "I found it very comforting to see that there is no such thing as a completely normal family. 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One of the American women said to the other, \"This is so beautiful. I can actually imagine maybe even becoming Orthodox.\" She went on and on, and finally a Russian seated just in front of her turned and said, \"You are not member of church because it is beautiful; you are member of church because it is the single truth of God!\"", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Andrew Solomon" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andrew-solomon/the-way-that-russian-orthodox-services-work-generally-and-certainly/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fd6/andrew-solomon-1140_american-woman_the-way-that-russian-orthodox-services-w_2667964.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fd6/andrew-solomon-1140_american-woman_the-way-that-russian-orthodox-services-w_2667964.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fd6/andrew-solomon-1140_american-woman_the-way-that-russian-orthodox-services-w_2667964.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“The way that Russian Orthodox services work generally, and certainly the way that this worked, is that it…” — Andrew Solomon", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 13, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "The absence of marriages will result in all kinds of financial burdens that gay people wouldn't face if they could get married. 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