I will say, in open adoption, all these choices you make about race, about the amount of mental illness you can deal with, about special needs and physical maladies, you have to lay all this out there before you know… — Jennifer Gilmore Copy Share Image
As writers, we don't just need to write about poverty or war or the immigrant experience. — Jennifer Gilmore Copy Share Image
Idea of the generations continuing is really important. And that's interesting to me. I write about families; I'm interested in families. Even though I… — Jennifer Gilmore Copy Share Image
People might seem to have a perfectly fine life but inside, we don't even know if they've suffered. — Jennifer Gilmore Copy Share Image
I feel like if writers used writing as therapy we'd have a ton of happy writers. — Jennifer Gilmore Copy Share Image
While I am very much Jewish 'identified,' I'm not a very religious person. — Jennifer Gilmore Copy Share Image
I want to say that, in general, when it works, open adoption is great. — Jennifer Gilmore Copy Share Image
Publishing in a way doesn't have a lot to do with writing, and writing doesn't have a lot to do with publishing. — Jennifer Gilmore Copy Share Image
I think we think that parenthood is confined to the country of mothers, but I think a lot of the men I've spoken to… — Jennifer Gilmore Copy Share Image
My first two novels were set in the past, and that freed me up in a lot of ways; it allowed me to find… — Jennifer Gilmore Copy Share Image
It would be a lie to say that people are coming to adoption with joy at all times. Hope, perhaps, but it would be… — Jennifer Gilmore 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 actually pregnant,… — Jennifer Gilmore Copy Share Image
What is it about the blank page that makes me want to hurl myself into a game of solitaire? I ask myself these kinds… — Jennifer Gilmore Copy Share Image
