531 Quotes About Adoption

I shook my head a little, not disagreeing so much as acknowledging the impossibility of ever knowing: it was hard to say, three decades later, what would have been best for the largest number of people.

She couldn't be doing more for us if she was donating a vital organ: her lungs, her heart.

Those fourteen months had shaken me to my core, to the point where I no longer knew anything for sure except that parents should not look to their children to meet their needs. You don't adopt a child because you need more love in your life. You had better have the love part figured out already.

Most of my life I have felt both real and not real.

We don't have adoption issues, we have an issue with adoption.

I learned that you need not be born into a family to be loved by one.

Today, when I’m asked, I often say that I no longer consider adoption—individual adoptions, or adoption as a practice—in terms of right or wrong. I urge people to go into it with their eyes open, recognizing how complex it truly is; I encourage adopted people to tell their stories, our stories, and let no one else define these experiences for us.

A child born to another woman calls me mom. The depth of the tragedy and the magnitude of the privilege are not lost on me.

I am an amalgam. I will always be something glued together, something slightly broken. It is not something I might recover from but something I must accept, to live with- with compassion.