Life Quote by Zara Phillips

“Yes, I'm adopted. My folks were not blessed With me in the usual way. But they picked me, They chose me From all the…

— Shel Silverstein

“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

“I began to read everything I could find on adoption. It amazes me that, prior to starting therapy, I had never done it. I…

— Zara Phillips

“I strongly believe that to heal from the adoption wound we all have to grieve our losses individually and then together. I don't regret…

— Zara Phillips

“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

“Are you sure you weren't adopted?" "Mom would like to think so, but it was a natural birth, so her memory's real clear.”

— Jana Deleon

“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

“ I was adopted there for I was not put in a family by random I was chosen i was wanted by another then…

— Michael J Barron

'I am not adopted; I have mysterious origins.' I have said that sentence many times in the course of my life as an adopted…

— Ellen Ullman

“It’s such a relief to know these are universal truths for so many of us in the adoption triad. Gosh, how much easier things…

— Paula Gruben

“Adoption. A realized fantasy of your parents not really being your parents. Your genes could thrust one arm in the air and pump up…

— Lorrie Moore

“I wasn't crazy after all. I wasn't the only one who experienced fear about loss and guilt towards their adoptive parents. I was relieved…

— Zara Phillips