Adoption Quote by Scott Simon

I say to everybody, 'Adoption is not for the faint of heart.'

— Mariska Hargitay

“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

“I began for the first time to really understand the loss my adoptive mother must have felt from not having her own child. I…

— Zara Phillips

“Adopted children are self-invented because we have to be; there is an absence, a void, a question mark at the very beginning of our…

— Jeannette Winterson

“Adoption isn't just a childhood experience, it's a life-long experience.”

— DaShanne Stokes

“I believe one of the most sacrificial acts of love adoptive parents can do is to give up their preconceptions and agendas about what…

— Sherrie Eldridge

“Adoption is a beautiful, burdensome blessing.”

— Jody Cantrell Dyer

“By adopting, I was not a full-fledged mother in their eyes. I hadn't paid the price of pregnancy, hadn't earned the badge of labor…

— Jana Wolff

“Adoption is grief in reverse.”

— Jody Cantrell Dyer

“Being denied their original birth certificates isn't just a problem for adoptees. It's a social problem, requiring social change.”

— DaShanne Stokes

“Adoption is a lifelong journey. It means different things to me at different times. Sometimes it is just a part of who I am.…

— Kelly DiBenedetto

Adoptive parents are taking on enormous responsibility, both emotionally and financially. Quite frankly, they need as much disclosure as possible about the child's background…

— Pat Robertson