Quotations
Favorite quotations about adoption and family life as experienced by adoptive and foster families.
"If you know one adoption, you know one adoption."
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Joyce Macguire Pavao
"Separately we each have a story to tell, together we can make our voices heard."
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Inter-National Adoption Alliance
"We should not be asking who this child belongs to, but who belongs to this child."
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Jim Gritter "An invisible thread connects those who are destined to meet, regardless of time and circumstance. The thread may stretch or tangle, but will never break."
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Chinese Legend of the Red Thread
"For people who are frightened of changes in the adoption law, there is nothing to fear."
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Washington State Supreme Court Justice (and birthmother) Faith Ireland
"I don't have a bank account, because I don't know my mother's maiden name."
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Paula Poundstone
"To be ignorant of what happened before you were born is to be ever a child."
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Cicero
"I was adopted, so I have no idea where I was born. Close to my mother, I hope."
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Edward Albee
"I think everyone should be adopted because you get to meet your birth parents when you're old enough to cope with them."
"You suddenly have twice as many people to blame for all your problems."
"As far as the side effects are concerned, the key to dealing with a fear of abandonment is to date people you don't like, so if they do leave you, it doesn't matter."
"Only one down side. If you'd been adopted by Mia Farrow, you could be married to Woody Allen..."
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Alison Larkin
"I'll tell you something, but keep it a secret while I live. My mother was a bastard, was the daughter of a nobleman so called of Virginia... Did you never notice that bastards are generally smarter, shrewder, and more intellectual than others?"
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Abraham Lincoln
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