Adoptees On Quotes

#1. Let's table that. I need to man up. I need to queer up. That's what I need to do. I need to queer up and be fearless.

Mark William Lindberg

#2. I am free and that is why I am lost.

Franz Kafka

#3. Adoptee rights are everyone's rights, and they deserve to be protected.

DaShanne Stokes

#4. That is the best baptism that leaves the man cleanest inside.

Henry Ward Beecher

#5. People think that LGBTs adopting children will hurt them, but it's not being in loving homes that hurts children most.

DaShanne Stokes

#6. The word, 'issues,' is perhaps a misnomer, a gross understatement, or a pale and withered description for very real psychological illnesses and emotional losses. Nevertheless, "post-adoption issues" is a catch-all phrase, and at least it avoid pathologizing adoptees.

Laura Dennis

#7. It's dangerous to start attributing your fortunes to luck and your misfortunes to fate.

Nancy Pickard

#8. Whatever it takes to break you.

Suzanne Collins

#9. Adoption isn't just a childhood experience, it's a life-long experience.

DaShanne Stokes

#10. I wanted to continue doing my work, but I had to figure out how. And so what I have basically come up with is that I still go to Afghanistan and Iraq and South Sudan and many of these places that are rife with war, but I don't go directly to the front line.

Lynsey Addario

#11. Adoptees, whether or not they ever knew their birth parents, often describe the constant, gnawing feeling of there being something missing: without a connection, or at least the knowledge of where they are from, they feel incomplete.

Saroo Brierley

#12. The reverse gear of time is the mind!

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#13. You realize you've never walked in another person's shoes. Never have. Never will. The same is true in adoption. There are three sets of adoption shoes sitting at the end of the boardwalk. The adoptees ... the birth parents' ... and the adoptive parents'. Each is unique and each has a story to tell.

Sherrie Eldridge

#14. Everybody can't be like Redford and pop out there and make big bucks right away because you look like a Greek god ... The guy's a friend of mine and he has absolutely no privacy in his life ...

Bruce Dern

#15. It can undermine the most sincere parental commitment and force adoptees to suffer in private, choosing either rebellion or conformity as a mode of relating.

Sherrie Eldridge

#16. What would you be like if you had white hair and had not given up your principles? It might be wise as you deal with coalition efforts to think about the possibilities of going for fifty years.

Bernice Johnson Reagon

#17. Just because I had to go didn't mean I wanted to leave.

Eric Smith

#18. Its the same everywhere. If you want big grief, look to the ladies.

Terry Pratchett

#19. Laws forbidding adoptees from accessing their original birth certificates are outdated and need to be changed today.

DaShanne Stokes

#20. From every wound there is a scar, and every scar tells a story. A story that says, "I survived."

Craig Scott

#21. The heat of black holes is like the Rosetta stone of physics, written in a combination of three languages- quantum, gravitational, and thermodynamic- still awaiting decipherment in order to reveal the true nature of time.

Carlo Rovelli

#22. Blood can help make family, but family often transcends blood.

DaShanne Stokes

#23. Well, if all three of us go we'll have to Disapparate separately," Ron was saying. "We can't all fit under the Cloak anymore.

J.K. Rowling