"I want to say that, in general, when it works, open adoption is great."

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Source : "Fictional 'Mothers' Reveal Facts Of A Painful Adoption Process". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. May 22, 2013.

Jennifer Gilmore

#Adoption Quotes #Want Quotes #Open Adoption Quotes

“I know that we live after death and again and again, not in the memory of our children, or as a mulch for trees and flowers, however poetic that may be, but looking passionately and egocentrically out of our eyes.”
“To keep our hand on the plow while wiping away our tears -- THAT is Christianity!”
“Computers are famous for being able to do complicated things starting from simple programs.”
“Wilderness and motors are incompatible and the former can best be experienced, understood and enjoyed when the machines are left behind where they belong -- on the superhighways and in the parking lots, on the reservoirs and in the marinas.”
“The fact that the laws of physics don't change as if you move in time has physical implications that there's this thing called energy and energy is conserved, and the same thing - and the fact that the laws of physics don't change of you move back and forth in different directions in space implies that there is something called momentum and momentum is conserve and doesn't change as you evolve in time.”
“That man loves God who puts his own life in harmony with him, and who serves his fellow men as though his life depends upon it, as indeed it does.”
“I have often met with happiness after some imprudent step which ought to have brought ruin upon me, and although passing a vote of censure upon myself I would thank God for his mercy.”
“I'm privileged, because I have a lot of freedom. I want to use it to make as warm and normal a life as I can for our daughters.”

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