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Identity itself should be not a smug label or a gold medal but a revolution.

Andrew Solomon

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Andrew Solomon
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: October 30
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Clinical Psychologist
Journalist
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New York City
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There is a line that I always loved from Lucretius. He said, The sublime is the art of exchanging easier for more difficult pleasures. The presumption of that formulation is that the more difficult pleasures are actually better than the easier pleasures. That is why one makes the exchange.
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I felt like all of the work was training for just one central idea: Accept your child for who he is. I'm not saying that I've done a brilliant job with that. But I've done my best.
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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.
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Parenthood always involves recognizing your child as separate and different from you.
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We see people of kindness, compassion, and possibly even faith being told, Because of a characteristic with which you were born, you are evil and bad. Anything that even implies such a stance is profoundly toxic.
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And I found out about the wonderful world of sign language. I suddenly realized: If we as a society recognize Jewish culture, gay culture and Latino culture, we must recognize that this is a coherent culture, too. I think deafness is a disability for social constructionist reasons.
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Penalizing homosexuals does not save any innocent victims. The idea that God and the Church accept these people while they are celibate and then if they go off and do something with someone else and both derive joy from it without any apparent harm to anyone else, the Church excommunicates them - that, to me, is bizarre.
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I'm a huge believer in science. But I don't think it explains everything.
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We live in the right time, even if it doesn't always feel like it.
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It is nearly impossible to hate anyone whose story you know.
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I hated being depressed, but it was also in depression that I learned my own acreage, the full extent of my soul.
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I think you can't deny that because the cochlear implant exists, the signing world is shrinking.
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It seems particularly ironic that a church that at one stage, a long time ago, fought to redefine marriage should now be so opposed to these attempts to redefine marriage.
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Religion is so focused on family. These days, for many people, being gay is also focused on family.
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I don't believe that there is anyone of faith whose faith would not be strengthened by those experiences of family.
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The tragedies that are being brought about vastly outweigh the benefits that are being achieved.
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The opposite of depression is not happiness, but vitality, and it was vitality that seemed to seep out of me.
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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.
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When a church manipulates the law to say, These people are lesser, it takes a lot of resilience to hold your head up and say, I am not lesser! Some people can do it and some cannot and some of those people who cannot will be destroyed.
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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 worst events of your life into a narrative of triumph, evincing a better self in response to things that hurt.
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