Adopting Quote by Jana Wolff

“She was not, herself, hugely in favor of motherhood in general. Obviously it was necessary, but it wasn't exactly difficult . Even cats managed…

— Terry Pratchett

“I began for the first time to really understand the loss my adoptive mother must have felt from not having her own child. I…

— Zara Phillips

“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

“In those days my mother was given to the exasperating and mysterious habit of having babies.”

— James Baldwin

“The world is full of women who have children, and women who don’t, but there is also a silent band of women who almost…

— Rachel Joyce

“Let us acknowledge the magnitude of Motherhood, by simply honoring all mothers— past & present.”

— Eleesha

“For the first time since giving birth so many years before, I grew weary of motherhood, and wondered how many more generations of women…

— Jean Sasson

“I went into motherhood with some pretty romantic notions about what being a mom would be like. I certainly thought that raising kids would…

— Debra Sansing Woods

“not really exist for mothers, with regard to their children.”

— Diana Gabaldon

“We were already mothers then, some by heart and some by womb. We rocked grandbabies left in our care and taught the neighborhood kids…

— Brit Bennett

“...after all, she had birthed us alone, diapered and fed us, helped us with homework, kissed and hugged us, poured her love into us.…

— Aimee Bender

“What would she have made of her life in the absence of childbirth? Maybe no more than she did in its presence and to…

— Debbie McGowan