"I wanted a baby of color, to be……" — Jennifer Gilmore
"I wanted a baby of color, to be honest, because I wasn't attached to the idea that I look like the biological mother. I liked the idea of the adoption being clear; it was and is not something I am interested in hiding."
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20 Quotes by Jennifer Gilmore
Jennifer Gilmore has 20 quotes on this site.
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I will say, in open adoption, all these choices you make about race, about the amount of mental illness you…
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As writers, we don't just need to write about poverty or war or the immigrant experience.
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History releases me from my own experience and jogs my fictional imagination.
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I feel sometimes like a book tour is a slow series of humiliations and that if you're strong you'll come…
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I find I have to touch what I am working on every day, or a deep-seated dread kicks in that…
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I really don't feel that writing is therapy.
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I want to say that, in general, when it works, open adoption is great.
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I'm a morning person: if I don't get up, put the coffee on and get to my desk by 8,…
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Publishing in a way doesn't have a lot to do with writing, and writing doesn't have a lot to do…
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I couldn't really experience being an author when I was still working in publishing - I was trying to negotiate…
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I know publishing now more as an author than with occasional peaks inside those elite offices than as an industry…
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I think publishing's strength is also its weakness. It's got such a rich and celebrated history as an industry. For…
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More Adoption Quotes
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Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right.
— Isaac Asimov
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He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.
— Francis Bacon
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Nothing is impossible,' said one of the seven sages of Greece, 'to industry.' Let us change the word, 'industry,' to…
— Adoniram Judson
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State Farm is pleased to support the Common Core State Standards Initiative. State by State adoption of these standards is…
— Edward B. Rust, Jr.
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Abortion is an act of desperation. It's an awful solution to a situation that God can work out for good…
— Bob Carlisle
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I think it is a worthy goal in America to have every child protected by law and welcomed in life.…
— George W. Bush
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Gay adoption is discrimination against children
— Pope Francis
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There are people who've said that I'm being brave for being openly supportive of gay marriage, gay adoption... With all…
— Anne Hathaway
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Next came the patent laws. These began in England in 1624, and in this country with the adoption of our…
— Abraham Lincoln
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You see how many are the benefits of baptism, and some think its heavenly grace consists only in the remission…
— Saint John Chrysostom
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We have been adopted as sons by the Lord with this one condition; that our life expresses Christ, the bond…
— John Calvin
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I definitely thought about it long and hard, about if I wanted to keep the baby or not, and I…
— Kourtney Kardashian
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