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Portrait of Andrew Solomon

Andrew Solomon

(1963) Journalist United States

282 quotes in 1212 categories

Andrew Solomon’s reflections weave together personal narrative and scholarly insight. This selection highlights his most poignant observations on identity, mental health, and the diverse tapestries of human life—thoughtful and deeply resonant.

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Andrew Solomon is a journalist from the United States, best known for Far From the Tree.

Quick Facts About Andrew Solomon

Born: October 30, 1963
Nationality: United States
Profession: Journalist
Notable works: Far From the Tree

About Andrew Solomon

Andrew Solomon is an American writer on politics, culture and psychology, who lives in New York City and London. He has written for The New York Times, The New Yorker, Artforum, Travel and Leisure, and other publications on a range of subjects, including depression, Soviet artists, the cultural rebirth of Afghanistan, Libyan politics, and Deaf politics.

Biography source: Wikipedia

Awards & Honors

National Book Award Lambda Literary Award Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards National Book Critics Circle Award in Nonfiction

Quotes by Andrew Solomon

Despair is part of love.

Despair

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Being gay is immutable.

Being gay

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Oppression breeds the power to oppose it.

Oppose

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Every organization does good and bad things.

Bad thing

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Parenting is no sport for perfectionists.

Child

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“Love, no matter what.”

Love

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

Banish

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Shutting out the depression strengthens it. While you hide from it, it grows.

Depression

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“If you wake up feeling no pain, you know you're dead. (Russian expression)”

Feeling

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Your gender identity is who you are. Sexual identity is who you bounce that off of.

Bounce

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“Absolute power corrupts absolutely, and no power is more absolute than parenthood.”

Absolute power

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It is nearly impossible to hate anyone whose story you know.

Hate

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I often say that the opposite of depression is not happiness but vitality.

Depression

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When you banish the dragons you banish the heroes.

Banish

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At the end of the day, will God be interested primarily in whether I have been kind and helped others, or in…

Baptized

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I loathe having a fragile brain and knowing as I make any plan that I should provide for the possibility that my…

Brain

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I have always believed in trying to be a good person and giving to the world, and treating others in a just,…

Always believe

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My father's an opera nut, and my stepmother used to work at the Metropolitan Opera, so I had a lot of opera…

Father

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“It is not true that "love is not love which alters when it alteration finds." Love alters all the time; it is…

Alters

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I think an awful lot of the diplomatic problems that exist in the world come from people assuming that their society is…

Assuming

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I think you can't deny that because the cochlear implant exists, the signing world is shrinking.

Deaf

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There is neither a cure for nor a way to repair autism. There is no implant like there is for the deaf.

Autism

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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…

Front

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I feel, as a matter nearly of faith, that if you have known a certain amount of suffering and have emerged out…

Amount

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Kids with Down syndrome are, by and large, quite affectionate and relatively guileless, and frequently, the attachments to them grow and deepen.…

Affectionate

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In these xenophobic times, when politicians are stoking everyone's anxiety about threats from abroad, I would argue that engaging with the rest…

Anxiety

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A large proportion of my best friends are a little bit crazy. ... I try to be cautious with my friends who…

Be cautious

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You need to take the traumas and make them part of who you've come to be, and you need to fold the…

Events

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“Without self-discovery,” Hahn wrote, extending an idea of Nietzsche’s, “a person may still have self-confidence, but it is a self-confidence built on…

Confidence

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A breakdown involves getting to the point at which your mental state prevents you from doing the normal things of your everyday…

Breakdown

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“This thought runs like a bright golden thread through the dark tapestry of our sorrow. We learn so much from our children—in…

Compassion

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“I wish I'd been accepted sooner and better. When I was younger, not being accepted made me enraged, but now, I am…

Acceptance

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Parenthood abruptly catapults us into a permanent relationship with a stranger, and the more alien the stranger, the stronger the whiff of…

Aliens

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It is important not to suppress your feelings altogether when you are depressed. It is equally important to avoid terrible arguments or…

Action

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The absence of marriages will result in all kinds of financial burdens that gay people wouldn't face if they could get married.…

Absence

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Religion is so focused on family. These days, for many people, being gay is also focused on family. The Mormon Church is…

Able

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“You are constantly told in depression that your judgment is compromised, but a part of depression is that it touches cognition. That…

Breakdown

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“To look deep into your child's eyes and see in him both yourself and something utterly strange, and then to develop a…

Children

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The idea of what it is like to lose everything is awful.

Awful

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I'm a huge believer in science. But I don't think it explains everything.

Believer

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Andrew Solomon by topic

People (52) Depression (47) Children (32) Love (31) Ifs (29) Parenting (28) Life (28) Gay (27) Time (25) Church (20) Homosexuality (19) Family (19) World (17) Thinking (17) Believe (16) Way (15) Marriage (12) Knows (12) Identity (11) Happiness (11) Parent (10) Ideas (10) Feels (10) Doe (10) Religion (9)