"The process of open adoption is not discussed……" — Jennifer Gilmore
"The process of open adoption is not discussed in the way it should be. Everyone I know who has adopted domestically has at least one tragic story. It was important to me to be able to describe those situations."
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20 Quotes by Jennifer Gilmore
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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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History releases me from my own experience and jogs my fictional imagination.
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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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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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