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

Andrew Solomon

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Andrew Solomon
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: October 30
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Clinical Psychologist
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I had always wanted to have children, so it caused me a lot of grief when I was younger, and I had supposed that gay people could not be parents.
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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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Your gender identity is who you are. Sexual identity is who you bounce that off of.
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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. And the meaning that parents find in it grows and deepens.
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I'm sure that if we had enough sophistication, someone could look at what my changes in brain structure were as I came to feel more deeply in love.
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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 Church responds to antiquated social realities, and those realities remain much more current in Utah precisely because of the Church.
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I just look at my own life, which is full of error as all life is. I have done plenty of things that I am not proud of.
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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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The absence of words is the absence of intimacy. There are experiences that are starved for language.
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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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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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Being in a marriage and having children is the greatest pleasure, but it is certainly not the easiest pleasure. It is not like eating ice cream.
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People … don't want to be cured or changed or eliminated. They want to be whoever it is that they've come to be.
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I look at the rates of suicide among gay teens. They are so, so high for suicide attempts and for completed suicides.
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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 of it into the light, you are obliged to share that light with as many of the still-beleaguered as possible.
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Treating an identity as an illness invites real illness to make a braver stand.
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Grief is depression in proportion to circumstance depression is grief out of proportion to circumstance. It is tumbleweed distress that thrives on thin air, growing despite its detachment from the nourishing earth. It can be described only in metaphor and allegory
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Listen to the people who love you. Believe that they are worth living for even when you don't believe it.
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