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I hate the comparative idea that you have to love your spouse more than you love your parents.

Andrew Solomon

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Andrew Solomon
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: October 30
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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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My parents deeply and truly loved each other, and if my mother hadn't died they would have been together forever. They were together for as much of forever as was given to them. They really loved my brother and me and were very good to us. It gave the model of how to have a happy marriage and family, but it also set the bar very high.
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Some autistic people may emerge from their condition, but nobody knows when and why.
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I do think that if the Church can see its way to greater tolerance, Church members will have greater exposure to gay people, and the lives of those gay people will be better.
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Fixing is the illness model acceptance is the identity model which way any family goes reflects their assumptions and resources.
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Oppression breeds the power to oppose it.
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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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I'm not studying everything that can go wrong. What I'm studying is how much love there can be, even when everything appears to be going wrong.
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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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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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When you banish the dragons you banish the heroes.
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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 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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Ease makes less of an impression on us than struggle.
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I encounter a lot of prejudice and a lot of darkness. I have to negotiate constantly through situations that are uncomfortable or difficult or strange.
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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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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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