“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
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
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 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
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
“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’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 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
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
I dont see myself as unloved because I was given up; I see it as an ultimate act of sacrifice and love… — Stacee Ballback Copy Share Image
“I wanted to drop the emotional hammer on Steph and tell her my thought: that I would very much like for her… — Susan Spencer-Wendel 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
“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
While the TV show 'Rizzoli & Isles' may have been inspired by my books, show runner Janet Tamaro has total control over… — Tess Gerritsen 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
“The areas of the cortex responsible for attention and self-regulation develop in response to the emotional interaction with the person whom we… — Gabor Maté Copy Share Image
“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
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 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
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
“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
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
I made a crash landing here on Earth on February 14, 1962, in the Shreveport Catholic Charities Home for un-wed mothers. The… — Kevyn Aucoin Copy Share Image
There's a book called 'The Shack' - it had a lot to do with me coming full circle, meeting my birth mother.… — Rodney Atkins 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/quotes/img-quotes/e0c/rosie-o-donnell-6728_adoption_when-we-adoption-agency-have-a-birth-mot_838661.jpg)
