"It would be a lie to say that……" — Jennifer Gilmore
"It would be a lie to say that people are coming to adoption with joy at all times. Hope, perhaps, but it would be disingenuous to say that every part coming to an adoption isn't seriously grieving."
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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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