Age Quote by Eliezer Yudkowsky

“Adopted children are self-invented because we have to be; there is an absence, a void, a question mark at the very beginning of our…

— Jeannette Winterson

Since I was five, I've known that I was adopted, which is a politically correct term for being clueless about one's own origins.

— Jodi Picoult

I had a brief period of questioning whether I should perhaps adopt a child. And my New Yorker editor, Henry Finder, was horrified by…

— Jonathan Franzen

So my father grew up in an orphanage in Boston. He was then adopted by an elderly childless couple from Maine, who gave him…

— George J. Mitchell

“It’s such a relief to know these are universal truths for so many of us in the adoption triad. Gosh, how much easier things…

— Paula Gruben

You may not know it, but I was adopted as a baby by my wonderful parents, Allan and Margaret Atkins of Cumberland Gap, Tenn.

— Rodney Atkins

It actually got me upset reading about adopted children. They become junkies or criminals or actors. I wanted to write a book from the…

— Michael Nyqvist

So, you know, Nathaniel was my first child, born when I was 40, so, uh... And then in due course, he wanted a brother,…

— Geraldine Brooks

I grew up in a family that had young people adopted from all over the world.

— Ronan Farrow

I always thought I would adopt. Even when I was young, I used to look up how to adopt.

— Sharon Stone

'I am not adopted; I have mysterious origins.' I have said that sentence many times in the course of my life as an adopted…

— Ellen Ullman

I've been the oldest child since before you were born

— Anonymous