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Being gay is immutable.
Despair is part of love.
Parenting is no sport for perfectionists.
Oppression breeds the power to oppose it.
Every organization does good and bad things.
Depression means that you have no point of view.
When you banish the dragons you banish the heroes.
Ease makes less of an impression on us than struggle.
The idea of what it is like to lose everything is awful.
Loving our own children is an exercise for the imagination.
It is nearly impossible to hate anyone whose story you know.
We live in the right time, even if it doesn't always feel like it.
I'd had a vaguely Jewish upbringing, but no deep connection to faith.
Science still won't explain the mysterious nature of love and despair.
It is easy to keep secrets by being honest in an ironic tone of voice.
I'm a huge believer in science. But I don't think it explains everything.
I often say that the opposite of depression is not happiness but vitality.
Identity itself should be not a smug label or a gold medal but a revolution.
Shutting out the depression strengthens it. While you hide from it, it grows.
Exercise because it's good for you even if every step weighs a thousand pounds.
Treating an identity as an illness invites real illness to make a braver stand.
Dealing with depression effectively is a mark not of weakness, but of strength.
Parenthood abruptly catapults us into a permanent relationship with a stranger.
My parents' usual reprimand was to remind me that I was not the Prince of Wales.
A lot of people are very political when they are young, and then they outgrow it.
Life is enriched by difficulty; love is made more acute when it requires exertion.
Your gender identity is who you are. Sexual identity is who you bounce that off of.
Someday, being gay will be a simple fact, free of party hats and blame. But not yet.
Some autistic people may emerge from their condition, but nobody knows when and why.
I can see the beauty of glass objects fully at the moment when they slip from my hand
Parenthood always involves recognizing your child as separate and different from you.
The more gay people can tell our stories, the more other people will accept gay people.
People who are different are constantly dealing with families who don't understand them.
The anxiety phase of my first depression lasted six months. It was incredibly paralyzing.
Forging meaning is about changing yourself. Building identity is about changing the world.
The strengthening of faith, I think, is the ultimate goal of organized religion altogether.
Travel is an exercise partly in broadening yourself and partly in defining your own limits.
I hate the comparative idea that you have to love your spouse more than you love your parents.
Our needs are our greatest asset. It turns out I've learned to give all the things that I need.
The tragedies that are being brought about vastly outweigh the benefits that are being achieved.
I did grow up in a household in which I felt that to be myself was to damage the people I loved.
I think you can't deny that because the cochlear implant exists, the signing world is shrinking.
There is a great deal of sin that comes from homosexuals who believe their homosexuality is a sin.
It's deeply humbling to realize that there is no such thing as a society with a purchase on truth.
Religion is so focused on family. These days, for many people, being gay is also focused on family.
We cannot bear a pointless torment, but we can endure great pain if we believe that it's purposeful.
The absence of words is the absence of intimacy. There are experiences that are starved for language.
There is neither a cure for nor a way to repair autism. There is no implant like there is for the deaf.
We can never afford to be complacent; there is no such thing as security when it comes to human rights.
I believe that organized religion is an ornament to the truth, and that aesthetics are part of its power.