Secret Thoughts of an Adoptive Mother Quotes

“I'm eternally grateful to {our birth mother}, but wish I had never needed her. It's a loaded friendship, a complex connection.”
― Jana Wolff, Secret Thoughts of an Adoptive Mother

“Meeting your adoptive baby is like being set up on a blind date with someone you will have to spend the next eighteen years with. You care about looks, because you desperately want to fall in love with the stranger who will be your child.”
― Jana Wolff, Secret Thoughts of an Adoptive Mother

“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 or the award for delivery, and would forever be an outside --an associate member at best. I looked like the other women, but I felt like less of one.”
― Jana Wolff, Secret Thoughts of an Adoptive Mother