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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.
Andrew Solomon
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Andrew Solomon
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: October 30
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We don't seek the painful experiences that hew our identities, but we seek our identities in the wake of painful experiences.
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I have two nexuses of sadness about the Mormon Church. The first is the effect the Church's position on homosexuality has on Mormons.
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I tend to find the ecstasy hidden in ordinary joys, because I did not expect those joys to be ordinary to me.
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Depression is the flaw in love. To be creatures who love, we must be creatures who can despair at what we lose, and depression is the mechanism of that despair.
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The strengthening of faith, I think, is the ultimate goal of organized religion altogether.
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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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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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Some autistic people may emerge from their condition, but nobody knows when and why.
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Identity itself should be not a smug label or a gold medal but a revolution.
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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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I would certainly not want my child to be schizophrenic. I wouldn't want him or her to be a criminal either. If, on the other hand, I had a deaf child, it would help that I have developed a real admiration for Deaf culture.
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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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Our needs are our greatest asset. It turns out I've learned to give all the things that I need.
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Life is enriched by difficulty love is made more acute when it requires exertion.
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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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People who believe that they are going to be excommunicated and shamed, or whatever other dark things may happen to them, are much less likely to enter open, loving relationships. And they are also much less likely to have the self-esteem that is required to be monogamous and loving. And in consequence, they are much less likely to create families.
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Being gay is immutable.
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It is easy to keep secrets by being honest in an ironic tone of voice.
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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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Living with depression is like trying to keep your balance while you dance with a goat -- it is perfectly sane to prefer a partner with a better sense of balance.
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