I am Quote by Ellen Ullman

“What I wasn't prepared for was the realization that an adopted person is always an adopted person and that there will always be passages…

— Zara Phillips

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've always known I was adopted.

— Emily Procter

“ I was adopted there for I was not put in a family by random I was chosen i was wanted by another then…

— Michael J Barron

“Adoption is a lifelong journey. It means different things to me at different times. Sometimes it is just a part of who I am.…

— Kelly DiBenedetto

I'm not adopted. But that longing and that sense of absence ... are perhaps other ways of expressing the actualities of my family. Different…

— Andrea Barrett

“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

As an adopted person, once you find out about that 'other' side of yourself, it's almost like you find out who you really are.

— Marcus Samuelsson

My parents in America always told me that I was adopted. It's never been a secret to me.

— Jessica Long

“Yes they are my parents but unlike those who haven't been adopted, I also have another set of parents. I know my adoptive parents…

— Zara Phillips

“Are you sure you weren't adopted?" "Mom would like to think so, but it was a natural birth, so her memory's real clear.”

— Jana Deleon

“Adoption. A realized fantasy of your parents not really being your parents. Your genes could thrust one arm in the air and pump up…

— Lorrie Moore