“I watched my birth mother as she chatted to Dad, and took in her beautiful smile.” — Katrina Kahler Copy Share Image
Birthing is the most profound initiation to spirituality a woman can have. — Robin Lim Copy Share Image
“The circumstances surrounding your birth is not as important as the opportunity to live life.” — Lailah Gifty Akita Copy Share Image
“I'm eternally grateful to {our birth mother}, but wish I had never needed her. It's a loaded friendship, a complex connection.” — Jana Wolff Copy Share Image
I have a lot of respect for my birth mother I know she must have had a lot of love for me… — Faith Hill Copy Share Image
I got my passport aplications sent back. Apparantly then question place of birth? Between my mother's legs isn't acceptable. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The birth mother is placing the baby out of love. I still believe that. Well, the ones weve dealt with who were… — Jennifer Gilmore Copy Share Image
My first, my birth mother - her name is Queenie - she gave me a powerful medicine when I was a child.… — Erykah Badu Copy Share Image
Even more than the time when she gave birth, a mother feels her greatest joy when she hears others refer to her… — Thiruvalluvar Copy Share Image
I met my birth mother as an adult, but she was always quite vague about my birth father. I knew he had… — Lesley Sharp Copy Share Image
My name is Frances Louise McDormand, formerly known as Cynthia Ann Smith. I was born in Gibson City, Ill., in 1957. I… — Frances McDormand Copy Share Image
Birth mothers choose life, and a family, for their child. But this choice is rarely celebrated. Women routinely face family, friends and… — Nina Easton Copy Share Image
A mother is not mother cause you give birth , a mother is someone who puts no one but god before her… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When we [adoption agency] have a birth mother who is pregnant and she doesn't know the race of the father, she is… — Rosie O'Donnell Copy Share Image
“Because our birth mothers made a choice for us that dramatically changed the course of our lives and over which we had… — Sherrie Eldridge Copy Share Image
“The story of my birth that my mother told me went like this: "When you were coming out I wasn't ready yet… — Sierra D. Waters Copy Share Image
A full accounting of adoption as an option would not underestimate its emotional challenges - the grief and loss for birth mothers,… — Nina Easton Copy Share Image
I think open adoption is a great idea, because it allows a relationship between the birth mother and her child so that… — Kathleen Hanna Copy Share Image
“When his thumb hovered over the red button, she stared at him aghast. “You’re truly going to … torture me?” He cast… — Kresley Cole Copy Share Image
“The word “ooloi” could not be translated directly into English because its meaning was as complex as Nikanj’s scent. “Treasured stranger.” “Bridge.”… — Octavia E. Butler Copy Share Image
“Listening to Eddy describe his relationship with our mom seemed to indicate that what I feared would be my reality. He never… — Janet Louise Stephenson Copy Share Image
(After meeting her birth mother after more than 40 years) We exchange bunches of orchids, laughing at the coincidence of the flowers.… — Jackie Kay Copy Share Image
I'm a big proponent of open adoption, because it allows a relationship between the birth mother and her child so that the… — Kathleen Hanna Copy Share Image
“The same rain the ghost is dancing in falls on me as I watch her carefree movements. I lift my own face… — Linda Hoye Copy Share Image
“Destiny is not always preordained. Life is about making choices. Our lives are the sum of all the choices we make, the… — Judith Land Copy Share Image
“We had a meeting where we were supposed to learn how to respond to jerks who ask things like "When did you… — Lisa See Copy Share Image
Stranger to my brothers, what are the reasons that you consider me an outsider? Just this: the birth mother did not give… — Mak_786 Copy Share Image
The birth mother is placing the baby out of love. I still believe that. Well, the ones we've dealt with who were… — Jennifer Gilmore Copy Share Image
The difference between motherand God! I saw mother at birth when the mother felt the need Ihave found to my own mother!… — Mak_786 Copy Share Image
Instead of joyfully looking forward to my birth, my mother began systematically preparing for her own death. She was fatalistic. — Lorna Luft Copy Share Image
My mother told me that my birth mother got pregnant by a married man who didn't want to leave his wife. — Ellen Ullman Copy Share Image
“I’d had this idea that my birth mother was waiting for me to get in touch, and that we’d have this fantastic… — Adele Abbott Copy Share Image
“I certainly never felt rejected because they had given me up. My parents knew nothing about my birth mother, yet always explained… — Emily Giffin Copy Share Image
“I originally feared she might be dead, which felt like a sealed book that I would never be able to read. To… — Janet Louise Stephenson Copy Share Image
![“When we [adoption agency] have a birth mother who is pregnant and she doesn't know the race of the father, she is using drugs, and she is in crisis, usually we cannot place that baby with a heterosexual family. Almost all of the times when we have a drug-addicted child, we place the baby in a…” quote by Rosie O'Donnell](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/e0c/rosie-o-donnell-6728_adoption_when-we-adoption-agency-have-a-birth-mot_838661.jpg)
