Adoption-search Quote by Mike Chalek

“As I began to think a bit more deeply about my own identity, I”

— J.D. Vance

“I didn't belong as a kid, and that always bothered me. If only I'd known that one day my differentness would be an asset,…

— Bette Midler

“When I was a child, I spoke and thought and reasoned as a child. But when I grew up, I put away childish things . . .”

— Emma Chase

“In the beginning I was so young and such a stranger to myself I hardly existed. I had to go out in the world…

— Mary Olier

“Why are you perpetuating a childhood you grew up despising?”

— Mona Rodriguez

“For so long, I gave in to my self-loathing. I refused to allow myself the simple pleasure of accepting who I am and how…

— Roxane Gay

“Most of the time, it felt like my father and I were completely different species. Possibly literally, depending on the day and whether or…

— Jennifer Lynn Barnes

“How strange it is that when I was a child I tried to be like a grownup, yet as soon as I ceased to…

— Leo Tolstoy

“Sometimes I wonder if I'm nothing more than the sum of who [my parents] were. Even worse, I worry that I don't add up…

— Cooper Davis

“Remember you don't own people, let them decide, choose and live. There is no inferiority and superiority; it is just your crazy imagination.”

— M.F. Moonzajer

“Your parents may have created you, but they don't define you.”

— Lisa Schroeder

“(My parents) had always instilled in me that it was way cooler to be an individual and to be unique and that you don't…

— Winona Ryder