Belong Quote by Lesley Sharp

As an adopted person, once you find out about that 'other' side of yourself, it's almost like you find out who you really are.

— Marcus Samuelsson

I'm not adopted. But that longing and that sense of absence ... are perhaps other ways of expressing the actualities of my family. Different…

— Andrea Barrett

When I was younger, I thought every kid was adopted because that's all I've known. I have everything I need, so I never felt…

— Simone Biles

I just always feel like if you're adopted I don't know if you could have been wanted any more than you are.

— Leslie Grossman

I was adopted, and so was my mom. And so I just was in tune with how life can be intentional. I feel like…

— Lucy Dacus

“Adoptees, whether or not they ever knew their birth parents, often describe the constant, gnawing feeling of there being something missing: without a connection,…

— Saroo Brierley

I felt the calling to adopt. You just know in the deepest part of your being that you are meant to find this little…

— Jillian Michaels

“There are times in every person’s life when they feel lonely, isolated, like maybe they don’t belong. For adoptees, this is often exacerbated by…

— Janet Louise Stephenson

“The baby explodes into an unknown world that is only knowable through some kind of a story - of course that is how we…

— Jeanette Winterson

“Adopted children are self invented because we have to be. There's an absence, a void, a question mark at the very beginning of our…

— Jeanette Winterson

“We had a meeting where we were supposed to learn how to respond to jerks who ask things like "When did you know you…

— Lisa See

Adopted kids are such a pain - you have to teach them how to look like you.

— Gilda Radner