Dan Savage Quotes (23 Quotes)


    To keep the peace, I do show things to my family before they come out, ... It's like a 'heads up, here's what I'm writing. If you really have a problem with it or you're never going to talk to me again, give me a call.'

    I don't think people should do things that make them miserable. And if being an in-shape, sober, monogamous heterosexual makes you miserable, don't do it. And if being an in-shape, sober, monogamous heterosexual makes you happy, do it.

    He got married today To the girl he cheated on you with We're gonna call him.

    It's amazing it doesn't happen all the time.

    We lose sleep over that. But I think Michael J. Fox who played ultra-conservative kid Alex Keaton in 'Family Ties' was aberrant.


    Savage speaks of another example, which he did not include in the book, in which he became suddenly and violently ill away from home. The hospital where he ended up receiving emergency services needed legal consent to provide medical care, and in order to do so, they decided to acknowledge Terry as his spouse. But that was their choice, ... They're improvising.

    It hasn't changed the way we live or relate to each other, ... But there is this intangible, hard-to-pin-down sense of permanence that is hard to describe.

    I felt a sense of loss and dislocation.

    I wanted to write about the idea of a multi-generational household because Americans don't live like that anymore, ... In writing about that place, I had to write about my great-grandparents' marriage, my grandparents' marriage, my parents' marriage.

    So to D.J. it didn't make any sense that his two dads, both boys, would contemplate marrying each other, ... Boys weren't supposed to be interested in marriage any more than they were supposed to be interested in dolls or dresses or fairy tales about princesses.

    Our people have been so important to us. We thought it was important to help them find their next job.

    One hundred years, ... America will be last. America's always last. Great Britain did away with slavery 100 years before we did and it was a vote, not a war. Pakistan has had a female prime minister and we're still just fantasizing about a female president.

    They're used to it, ... It isn't the first time I've written about my family history or dragged everyone into a book.

    But as gay parents our private life is so politicized. It's an object lesson.

    It would be as if a print advertiser said 'Gee, The Wall Street Journal reaches all business people in the U.S., so why do I need to advertise in other business publications' But the truth is it does work to advertise elsewhere.

    How can two gay guys be in favor of legal same-sex marriage and huge fans of the traditional family without wanting to marry

    At that point, I had 50,000 to 80,000 words written about the house. Instead, it became a sequel to The Kid in a way,

    Our people love this product. They put their heart into their work every single day.

    One man's blasphemy doesn't override other people's free-speech rights, their freedom to publish, freedom of thought.

    There's going to be some places where you're treated with respect and dignity and some places where you'd have to be a fool to live, ... So, there will be places where people can get their hair done well and places where they can't.

    I don't think that sin and pursuing happiness are not necessarily the same thing.

    How can you tell somebody whose is pursuing happiness that they're somehow not American when that was the very first promise that America made?

    But it doesn't matter what you're doing, it matters how you're doing it.


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