Dan Savage Quotes

Christmas can have a real melancholy aspect, 'cause it packages itself as this idea of perfect family cohesion and love, and you're always going to come up short when you measure your personal life against the idealized personal lives that are constantly thrust in our faces, primarily by TV commercials.
Dan Savage

Life, Love, Family

Really, when it comes to gay rights, there's two wars going on. The first war is political. But the culture war is over.
Dan Savage

War, Gay, Political

A lot of kids are bullied because of their sexual identity or expression. It's often the effeminate boys and the masculine girls, the ones who violate gender norms and expectations, who get bullied.
Dan Savage

Kids, Often, Expression

I think the best thing for you to do is just live your life. Live a life that's worth living, one where you do what you want to do, pursue your passions. That way, if you meet someone, they'll be joining a life that's already really good.
Dan Savage

Life, Good, Best

Like it or not children are being raised by gay and lesbian parents all over America - as many as 10 million children. And it does nothing to make their lives more stable and secure to attack their families, to attack their parents to prevent us from marrying each other.
Dan Savage

Gay, Children, Parents

The cultural expectation should be if there's infidelity, the marriage is more important than fidelity.
Dan Savage

Marriage, Important, Infidelity

Children have a right to some stability and constancy from the adults in their lives.
Dan Savage

Children, Lives, Stability

A certain tiny percentage of everyone is gay.
Dan Savage

Gay, Everyone, Tiny

A huge part of what animates homophobia among young people is paranoia and fear of their own capacity to be gay themselves.
Dan Savage

Fear, Gay, Young

I wouldn't say that holidays are manufactured by corporations, but they're certainly exploited and mined by them.
Dan Savage

Holidays, Exploited, Mined

Women can go on marrying and pretending that their boyfriends and husbands are Mr. Darcy or some RomCom dream man. But where's that going to get 'em? Besides divorce court?
Dan Savage

Women, Dream, Divorce

You want to help gay kids, you have to reach them in middle school and high school, when they're being bullied.
Dan Savage

School, Gay, Help

A lot of people are living their lives online in much more public ways with Facebook and Twitter.
Dan Savage

Living, Lives, Public

Actual gay people can make many others feel uncomfortable and paranoid because they don't know and can't articulate what makes a person gay, and they worry that maybe they themselves are gay.
Dan Savage

Gay, Person, Others

Every question is a hypothetical question for everyone but the person who asks it.
Dan Savage

Person, Everyone, Question

I have a thick skin, but I have a heart.
Dan Savage

Heart, Skin, Thick

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

Freedom, Thought, Rights

School is very conformist, and one of the very first conforming that goes on in preschool and kindergarten is gender.
Dan Savage

School, Goes, Gender

Straight couples don't have to be monogamous to be married or married to be monogamous. Monogamy no more defines marriage than the presence of children does. Monogamy isn't compulsory and its absence doesn't invalidate a marriage.
Dan Savage

Marriage, Children, Married

The bullied straight kid goes home to a shoulder to cry on and support and can talk freely about his experience at school and why he's being bullied. I couldn't go home and open up to my parents.
Dan Savage

Home, Experience, School

The only way to get gay issues off the front pages of Canadian newspapers is to grant gay and lesbian people our full civil equality and leave it alone.
Dan Savage

Equality, Alone, Gay

When I was a kid, and I was odd, the default assumption was that I was odd, not that I was gay. Now when a kid is odd in a Greensburg, gay or straight, the default assumption is gay.
Dan Savage

Gay, Kid, Straight

Books are magic: you never know where they're going to end up.
Dan Savage

End, Books, Magic

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

Matter, Matters

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?
Dan Savage

Happiness, Made, America

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Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: October 7, 1964

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