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• Identity itself should be not a smug label or a gold medal but a revolution.

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  Gold, Identity, Labels

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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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  Kids, Attachment, Parent

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• All parenting turns on a crucial question: to what extent parents should accept their children for who they are, and to what extent they should help them become their best selves.

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  Children, Self, Parent

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• I'm a huge believer in science. But I don't think it explains everything.

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  Thinking, Believer, Huge

  Source: andrewsolomon.com

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• I found it very comforting to see that there is no such thing as a completely normal family. People find their way through whatever the differences may be.

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  Differences, People, Comforting

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• A lot of people are very political when they are young, and then they outgrow it.

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  People, Political, Young

  Source: andrewsolomon.com

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• There is no question that abuse, drugs and exposure to violence at home can exacerbate someone's criminal tendencies enormously. But there are many, many criminals who don't come from that background.

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  Home, Drug, Abuse

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• I was in fact anxious about whether I would be any good at being a father. And then I met so many people who had been good parents under difficult circumstances, and I felt inspired by them.

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  Father, People, Parent

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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.

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  Gay, People, Faces

  Source: andrewsolomon.com

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• I like the relative literacy of at least some of England. I mean, I didn't come for the food or the weather!

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  Mean, Weather, England

  "Andrew Solomon: 'I'm one of five parents with four children in three states'". Interview with Carole Cadwalladr, www.theguardian.com. February 16, 2013.

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• I don't accept subtractive models of love, only additive ones. And I believe that in the same way we need species diversity to ensure that the planet can go on, so we need this diversity of affection and diversity of family in order to strengthen the ecosphere of kindness.

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  Kindness, Believe, Order

  "Q&A with Andrew Solomon". Interview with Bronte Coates, www.readings.com.au. May 27, 2014.

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• Your gender identity is who you are. Sexual identity is who you bounce that off of.

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  Identity, Gender, Bounce

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• Though many schizophrenics become curiously attached to their delusions, the fading of the nondelusional world puts them in loneliness beyond all reckoning, a fixed residence on a noxious private planet they can never leave, and where they can receive no visitors.

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  Depression, Loneliness, Fading

  Andrew Solomon (2014). “Far From the Tree: Parents, Children and the Search for Identity”, p.296, Simon and Schuster

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• Depressed people cannot lead a revolution because depressed people can barely manage to get out of bed and put on their shoes and socks.

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  Shoes, People, Bed

  Andrew Solomon (2014). “The Noonday Demon: An Atlas Of Depression”, p.320, Simon and Schuster

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• Depression means that you have no point of view.

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  Mean, Views, Point Of View

  "Anatomy of Melancholy" by Andrew Solomon, www.newyorker.com. January 12, 1998.

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• Suicide is a crime of loneliness, and adulated people can be frighteningly alone. Intelligence does not help in these circumstances; brilliance is almost always profoundly isolating.

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  Suicide, Loneliness, People

  FaceBook post by Andrew Solomon from Aug 21, 2014

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• I think an awful lot of the diplomatic problems that exist in the world come from people assuming that their society is the one with a purchase on truth.

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  Thinking, People, World

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• While people argue with one another about the specifics of Freud's work and blame him for the prejudices of his time, they overlook the fundamental truth of his writing, his grand humility: that we frequently do not know our own motivations in life and are prisoners to what we cannot understand. We can recognize only a small fragment of our own, and an even smaller fragment of anyone else's, impetus.

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  Motivation, Humility, Writing

  Andrew Solomon (2014). “The Noonday Demon: An Atlas Of Depression”, p.102, Simon and Schuster

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• Exercise because it's good for you even if every step weighs a thousand pounds.

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  Exercise, Work Out, Pounds

  Andrew Solomon (2014). “The Noonday Demon: An Atlas Of Depression”, p.29, Simon and Schuster

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• I was overpowered by being in the world, by other people and their lives I couldn’t lead, their jobs I couldn’t do - overpowered even by jobs I would never want or need to do.

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  Jobs, People, Needs

  Andrew Solomon (2014). “The Noonday Demon: An Atlas Of Depression”, p.67, Simon and Schuster

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• I have found that the greatest stories of acceptance and love and the ugliest stories of hideous cruelty and abuse have equally been perpetrated in the name of Christian faith.

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  Christian, Acceptance, Names

  Source: andrewsolomon.com

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• I felt like all of the work was training for just one central idea: Accept your child for who he is. I'm not saying that I've done a brilliant job with that. But I've done my best.

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  Jobs, Children, Ideas

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• I met people on college campuses who were defining themselves as genderqueer to express revolutionary feelings, or to communicate their individuality; they were gender fluid without being gender dysphoric. This phenomenon may be culturally significant, but it has only a little bit in common with the people who feel they can have no authentic self in their birth gender.

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  College, Self, People

  Andrew Solomon (2014). “Far From the Tree: Parents, Children and the Search for Identity”, p.660, Simon and Schuster

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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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  Gay, Thinking, Culture

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I think morality is more important than ever before. As we gain more power, the question of what we do with it becomes more and more crucial, and we are very close to really having divine powers of creation and destruction. The future of the entire ecological system and the future of the whole of life is really now in our hands. And what to do with it is an ethical question and also a scientific question.

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  Thinking, Important, Morality

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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