Andrew Solomon Quotes About Growing Up

Quotes about: Growing Up

• I grew up feeling that to be gay was a tragedy. I didn't grow up thinking that it was morally wrong, but I grew up thinking that it would make me marginal, prevent me from having children, and quite possibly prevent me from having a meaningful long relationship. It seemed that this condition would leave me with a vastly reduced life.

  Andrew Solomon

  Meaningful, Children, Growing Up

  Source: andrewsolomon.com

• I did grow up in a household in which I felt that to be myself was to damage the people I loved.

  Andrew Solomon

  Growing Up, People, Damage

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• I know one gay ex-Mormon who is a talented, self-destructive alcoholic. Whenever he is drunk and going on a tear, we are back to the Mormon Church and his being thrown out of the Mormon Church and growing up with this sense of being evil.

  Andrew Solomon

  Growing Up, Gay, Self

  Source: andrewsolomon.com

• If someone says: "I don't want to have a cochlear implant, because I want my child to grow up with a rich sense of deaf culture," he must acknowledge that the deaf culture that exists in the world today has a different scale than the deaf culture that's likely to exist in the world 50 years from now.

  Andrew Solomon

  Children, Growing Up, Years

  Source: www.spiegel.de

• The world changed, and the idea of having a family became feasible for homosexuals. But I was still left with the question as to what it would be like for a child to grow up with gay parents.

  Andrew Solomon

  Children, Growing Up, Gay

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