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We live in the right time, even if it doesn't always feel like it.

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Andrew Solomon
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: October 30
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Clinical Psychologist
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In coming to an appreciation of the Mormon Church, one of the things that has been most compelling to me is the Mormon understanding of family, which extends beyond the general injunction to be fruitful and multiply, and addresses the permanence of love relationships into eternity, and embraces the sanctity of having children.
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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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There is a tendency to dehumanize kids that commit crimes. The system is focused on punishment, not on rehabilitation. These kids are the most misunderstood and most cruelly treated.
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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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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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I think an awful lot of the diplomatic problems that exist in the world come from people assuming that their society is the one with a purchase on truth.
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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, kind, merciful way.
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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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Science still won't explain the mysterious nature of love and despair.
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Antonin Artaud wrote on one of his drawings, Never real and always true, and that is how depression feels. You know that it is not real, that you are someone else, and yet you know that it is absolutely true.
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When you believe that you cannot stitch your own heart back together, go to work on the hearts of other people there is no surer way to repair yourself than to repair them.
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It is easy to keep secrets by being honest in an ironic tone of voice.
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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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I had always thought of myself as fairly tough and fairly strong and fairly able to cope with anything. And then I had a series of personal losses. My mother died. A relationship that I was in came to end, and a variety of other things went awry.
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If your love didn't always contain the possibility of loss, it would be very different from human love as we know it.
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Being gay is immutable.
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There is a great deal of sin that comes from homosexuals who believe their homosexuality is a sin.
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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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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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The tragedies that are being brought about vastly outweigh the benefits that are being achieved.
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