531 Quotes About Adoption

The woman who gave her baby away. The woman who told the world her baby was dead. She is a coward and I am the thing she fears the most. The litter from her belly, the filthy issue, the prodigal daughter.

It is the first time I have felt truly South African. When the orchestra strikes up the opening chords of the national anthem, and the entire stadium stands, I have found my voice and I sing ‘Nkosi sikelel’ iAfrika!’ I look to the gogo who had earlier taken my arm and I put my hand in hers. My people, I think to myself. My people.

What matters most is not 'what' you are, but 'who' you are.

We live in one world together. It's more important than ever to be friend to all.

The life of an adoptee is like an ancient voyager who searches for the unknown. The stars guided their destiny. They had their sights on the wonders that lay ahead of them. An adoptee travels in the opposite direction.

Happiness is a conscious choice we make for ourselves. It has to come from within.

I kept going because I knew my relationship to life itself was at stake. As much as I wanted to quit, doing so would have been more painful than continuing. It would have been like a butterfly flipping off life and returning to the cramped old cocoon. I never quit.

And even though I adore the fact that Francesca has Ben's eyes, I also see now that her biological connection to us is irrelevant. She is her own little person. She is Francesca. If we weren't her "natural" parents, we would still have loved her just as much.

Laws forbidding adoptees from accessing their original birth certificates are outdated and need to be changed today.