I mourn for the kind of dad I didn't have; I rue my first broken family while taking joy in the one… — Rumaan Alam Copy Share Image
By a considerable margin, my family's largest-ever financial expenditure was the adoption of our two sons. — Rumaan Alam Copy Share Image
It is true for my family and many others: Adoption has made us infinitely richer in the ways that matter most. — Rumaan Alam Copy Share Image
I work when I'm alone, but I have children and a family and a job, so alone time is at a premium. — Rumaan Alam Copy Share Image
I married the man I love when the state of California said I could. We made a family through adoption, as New… — Rumaan Alam Copy Share Image
Does a bona fide chimichurri have cilantro in it? Who cares? Cooking for your family, unless your family includes Joel Rubouchon, is… — Rumaan Alam Copy Share Image
When I was somewhere between child and adult, my father left us. My first family broke apart, but this liberated me to… — Rumaan Alam Copy Share Image
Parenting advice is mostly useless because every family is uniquely its own; artistic advice is mostly useless because every artist works in… — Rumaan Alam Copy Share Image
I don't want the staggeringly wealthy Elton John and his family to represent the standard of gay fatherhood any more than straight… — Rumaan Alam Copy Share Image
Contemporary families can be made in many ways. You might step up when relatives or friends are unable to meet their obligation… — Rumaan Alam Copy Share Image
Obama-as-dad is my favorite Obama. Obama-as-executive, with his stubborn faith in reasonableness in times absent of reason, presided over the country during… — Rumaan Alam Copy Share Image
When you are what we call a 'minority writer,' a writer of color, a writer of any kind of difference, there is some kind… — Rumaan Alam Copy Share Image
Fashion has underscored the interchangeability of men for a long time, maybe from the outset. — Rumaan Alam Copy Share Image
I've spent many hours of my life browsing in stores. At 21, I admired clothes I couldn't afford. At 30, I bought them. At… — Rumaan Alam Copy Share Image
With respect to parenting, biological age is not, for men, the concern it is for women. — Rumaan Alam Copy Share Image
That's part of fashion's promise: that a girlfriend or boyfriend or a promotion are just one tie or sweater or pair of shoes away. — Rumaan Alam Copy Share Image
I do think that I have a sensitivity to the depictions of maybe all minorities in literature. And I think that the experience of… — Rumaan Alam Copy Share Image
When you are young, it's deeply annoying to be told that certain things are a condition of your youth. There's almost always some condescension… — Rumaan Alam Copy Share Image
Children's literature - the product of adult guesswork - often fails to account for its audience's slippery grasp on the world. — Rumaan Alam Copy Share Image
“One of her most reached-for truisms was that some percentage of jobs were indistinguishable from one another, as they all involved the sending of… — Rumaan Alam Copy Share Image
Writing takes gall. I like to think that's true even for writers with several books under their belt, writers who have been doing it… — Rumaan Alam Copy Share Image
Genre is a useful thing when organizing texts in a bookshop but immaterial to the particular exchange between writer and reader. — Rumaan Alam Copy Share Image
