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.
Andrew SolomonI had known a couple of people who had died, but the loss of my mother contained something of the profoundly unknowable.
Andrew SolomonI think you can't deny that because the cochlear implant exists, the signing world is shrinking.
Andrew SolomonI 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.
Andrew Solomon