5 Quotes by Melissa Fay Greene

America wrestles with its obesity crisis to such an extent that Americans forget there are worse weight problems on earth than obesity.

A Georgia peach, a real Georgia peach, a backyard great-grandmother’s orchard peach, is as thickly furred as a sweater, and so fluent and sweet that once you bite through the flannel, it brings tears to your eyes.

There are many children who need help, and anyone who wants to reach out and adopt a child from foster care or from a Russian orphanage should reach out and do it.

Adoption is the appropriate response to only one situation: the need of a child for a new family, combined with a family’s desire for a new child.

There’s a culture in orphanages that children are eager to escape from, and it’s a culture of being reared as a group and not being doted upon by parents. For any child, that’s the bottom line. The fact is that a human child wants that mommy or daddy or both.