Gay rights are not primarily marriage rights, and for the millions who live in unaccepting places with no resources, dignity remains elusive. I am lucky to have forged meaning and built identity, but that’s still a rare privilege. And gay people deserve more, collectively, than the crumbs of justice. Andrew Solomon Read Quote
Depression is so exhausting – it takes up so much of your time and energy – and silence about it, it really does make the depression worse. Andrew Solomon Read Quote
Now, it’s not that I think that being gay is the most amazing, wonderful thing in the world, but I have a husband; I have a life; I have friends who I’ve met through this. It’s who I am. Andrew Solomon Read Quote
If you look at the language of illness, you can use it to describe race – you could experience race as an illness. You can experience income level, at many different levels, as a form of illness. You can experience age as an illness. I mean, it’s all got an illness component. Andrew Solomon Read Quote
I think it would be great if in 50 years you could find out lots more about the conditions your child is going to have – and if we lived in a society that is so tolerant that many things that might now lead to abortion would then be seen as part of human variance. Andrew Solomon Read Quote
My parents’ usual reprimand was to remind me that I was not the Prince of Wales. Andrew Solomon Read Quote
The only way I seem to be able to keep going while I’m writing is to munch my way through boxes of chocolates. Andrew Solomon Read Quote
My father’s an opera nut, and my stepmother used to work at the Metropolitan Opera, so I had a lot of opera immersion. I like the grandness and pretention of it. Andrew Solomon Read Quote
I’ve had a mental illness for nearly half my life, and I can no longer imagine myself without it. It seems less like something that happened to me than like part of who I am; some days, it is the thing about me, but it is always at least a thing about me. Andrew Solomon Read Quote
