Adoption Quote by J.D. Stroube

“I journeyed alone for almost ten years before I found home. Adoptions are like very delicate gardening with transplants and grafts. Mine took hold,…

— Ashley Rhodes-Courter

“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

“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

“Because adoption is a lifelong journey, we have a future filled with the potential to learn invaluable lessons. But many of us haven't been…

— Sherrie Eldridge

“My life has been shaped by the decision two people made over 24 years ago. They decided to adopt a child. They got me,…

— Karen Fowler

“Children always wanted their parents in situ, in stasis. The faster they changed, the more their parents should remain the same.”

— Marge Piercy

“The writer was able to capture many of the feelings that I actually had as a abandoned and then adopted child. Actually I have…

— David Brodzinsky

“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

“For me, adoption was grief in reverse.”

— Jody Cantrell Dyer

The journey into adoption started for my parents, as it does with so many families: my mother and father desperately wanted to have kids,…

— Marcus Samuelsson

“It’s not an easy time for any parent, this moment when the realization dawns that you’ve given birth to something that will never see…

— Richard Russo

“I strongly believe that to heal from the adoption wound we all have to grieve our losses individually and then together. I don't regret…

— Zara Phillips