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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.
Andrew Solomon
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Andrew Solomon
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: October 30
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The thing that makes me really outraged, is the idea that the Mormon Church would presume to get involved in decisions that have little to do with Mormonism.
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Oppression breeds the power to oppose it.
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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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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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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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I'm a huge believer in science. But I don't think it explains everything.
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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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I had known a couple of people who had died, but the loss of my mother contained something of the profoundly unknowable.
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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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Depression means that you have no point of view.
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The more gay people can tell our stories, the more other people will accept gay people.
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I spent years thinking I had to make a choice between being true to myself and being with a man and not having a family, and trying to live something of a lie and being with a woman and having children.
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