Freedom Quote by Andrew Solomon

“If you banish the dragons, you banish the heroes...”

— 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…

— 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…

— Andrew Solomon

A lot of people are very political when they are young, and then they outgrow it.

— 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…

— 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.

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— Andrew Solomon

Loving our own children is an exercise for the imagination.

— 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…

— Andrew Solomon