Adopted Quote by Michael Gove

When I was little, I knew that I was not adopted, but I actually imagined and hoped that I was, and that my real…

— Gloria Steinem

When I was little, I knew that I was not adopted, but I actually imagined and hoped that I was - and that my…

— Gloria Steinem

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

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

The first four months of my life were spent in care, before I was adopted by my wonderful parents - my mum and dad…

— Michael Gove

I was adopted when I was a baby. My mother carried me for nine months and she held me for one hour, and didn't…

— Michael Franti

For some strange reason, we believe that anyone who lived before we were born was in some peculiar way a different kind of human…

— Uta Hagen

“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

My adoptive mother tirelessly worked most of her life to build up my self-esteem. So what happened was finding her started to shed light…

— Keegan-Michael Key

“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

Most of us are living out the unlived lives of our mothers, because they were not able to become the unique people they were…

— Gloria Steinem

I grew up without a father, who was kept a mystery to me. There was a sense of uprootedness, things being one day here…

— John Irving