Quotes by : Andrew Solomon

It's a strange poverty of the English language, and indeed, of many other languages, that we use this....

Mild depression is a gradual and sometimes permanent thing that undermines people the way rust weakens....

When I was born, the wisdom was that homosexuality was an illness; that it was caused largely by somebody's....

Parenting involves two separate activities. You have to change your child in that you need to educate....

Despite every advancement, language remains the defining nexus of our humanity; it is where our knowledge....

Those who believe their suffering has been valuable love more readily than those who see no meaning in....

John [the father] kept saying, "You have a penis. That means you’re a boy." One day, Shannon noticed....

If real experience has triggered your descent into depression, you have a human yen to understand it....

Since I am writing a book about depression, I am often asked in social situations to describe my own....

Some people are trapped by the belief that love comes in finite quantities, and that our kind of love....