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I believe that words are strong, that they can overwhelm what we fear when fear seems more awful than life is good.

Andrew Solomon

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Andrew Solomon
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: October 30
Author
Clinical Psychologist
Journalist
Novelist
Writer
Manhattan borough
New York City
Believe
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If you don't want to have gay weddings in Mormon churches, that's fine. That's absolutely up to the members of the faith or the leadership of the faith. I would never suggest that the Mormon Church has to consecrate gay unions. But homosexuality runs at a fairly constant rate through all populations. There are many gay Mormons.
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I was in fact anxious about whether I would be any good at being a father. And then I met so many people who had been good parents under difficult circumstances, and I felt inspired by them.
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It's deeply humbling to realize that there is no such thing as a society with a purchase on truth.
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I have spent a lot of my life trying to do good and be a humanitarian, to write about difficult places, and to tell the story of oppressed peoples.
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The idea of what it is like to lose everything is awful.
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Being gay is immutable.
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We cannot bear a pointless torment, but we can endure great pain if we believe that it's purposeful.
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The experience of being depressed and emerging from depression made me understand the idea of a soul. I felt that the language in which one could best acknowledge that drew from faith.
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The more gay people can tell our stories, the more other people will accept gay people.
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