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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: 60
Born: 1963
Born: October 30
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Clinical Psychologist
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Suicide is a crime of loneliness, and adulated people can be frighteningly alone. Intelligence does not help in these circumstances brilliance is almost always profoundly isolating.
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The idea of anyone contemplating our family and witnessing the affection that we all have for one another and seeing evil in it is deeply hurtful and sad and also deeply bewildering.
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I hope the Church will examine what is good and what is ill, and what good could be achieved by getting the suicidal, self-destructive, possibly carnal, or celibate to move toward this experience of love.
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I think a lot of the time people assume that their values are universal. And they don't understand which aspects of their values are actually universal and which aspects are very specific.
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If you are married and you go off and have an affair with someone, if you are a husband who does that, it may potentially hurt your wife enormously. But it seems to me likely also to compromise your marriage. That seems to me to be a harm.
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I did grow up in a household in which I felt that to be myself was to damage the people I loved.
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Life is enriched by difficulty love is made more acute when it requires exertion.
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All parenting turns on a crucial question: to what extent parents should accept their children for who they are, and to what extent they should help them become their best selves.
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I think it's up to the parents to determine whether what they're doing is consigning their child to difficulty. It's not as though they were crippling their children after they were born.
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With children who have never said a word, parents tend to assume, for better or for worse, that there isn't any language there.
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I love to communicate, and I love music. That's why I always thought not being able to hear would be a tragedy.
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Grief is depression in proportion to circumstance depression is grief out of proportion to circumstance.
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Parenthood abruptly catapults us into a permanent relationship with a stranger.
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I grew up in a very rationalist household. My father, in particular, came from that mid-century tradition of thinking science will ultimately explain everything.
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Psychologically, I will not have to seek far if I decide to kill myself, because in my mind and heart I am more ready for this than for the unplanned daily tribulations that mark off the mornings and afternoons.
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The campaign against polygamy, around which a lot of anti-Mormon sentiment was organized, seems horrific to me.
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The most important thing to remember about depression is this: you do not get the time back. It is not tacked on at the end of your life to make up for the disaster years. Whatever time is eaten by a depression is gone forever. The minutes that are ticking by as you experience the illness are minutes you will not know again.
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Despair is part of love.
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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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We cannot bear a pointless torment, but we can endure great pain if we believe that it's purposeful.
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