Geraldine Brooks Quotes

My son, who is five, was adopted from Ethiopia. My daughter was adopted from Guatemala. Her parents died of typhoid and malaria. We got her from an orphanage. They are the lights of my life.

I was 36 when I had my first son, Thomas, and 39 when I had Hugo, my second.

If I'm not blessed with children of my own then I'd like to adopt one day - possibly a child from Pakistan.

I absolutely want to have children, whether I have my own or adopt.

After I got married, the first child born to us was mentally handicapped.

If I have kids, I'll adopt.

We feel that there are so many kids who need adopting. We thought we'd do it after having a couple of our own, but we just changed our mind.

I don't think I'll do foster care or adopt, to be quite honest.

My husband and I had five biological children but we also have been raising 23 foster children.

I've always wanted two kids. I've always wanted a girl and a boy.

No, I'm not adopting any children.

I'm done with the whole idea of having my own children. It doesn't seem like any fun.

The journey into adoption started for my parents, as it does with so many families: my mother and father desperately wanted to have kids, but they couldn't.

I always thought I would adopt. Even when I was young, I used to look up how to adopt.

I do want to have a family at some point. I also want to adopt. I don't feel pressure to have kids because I know that there are so many out there.

I always thought I'd adopt - I have a dog but no children.

If it gets to the point where I actually physically cannot have a child, there's plenty of children in the world that need a stable home and loving parent. I'm so down for adoption.

You become a parent when you have a baby, no matter how you get there.

I want a baby and I want a family, for sure.

Absolutely. It's something I'd eventually love. In the meantime, I just borrow all my friends' kids. It's seriously the best birth control in the world. I'm so tired afterward, I'm like, Okay, maybe in another two years.

After years of infertility tests, the best decision we ever made was to adopt, and in 1987, we were bestowed a three-month-old baby girl from an island off the south coast of Korea called Cheju Island.

I'd like another child, and maybe if it doesn't work out, I'll adopt.

The Lord did not bless us with any children of our own, so we gathered up little waifs whom we thought would be neglected and would not be cared for unless we brought them into our family.

My daughter is a preschooler but I have only known her for a while. She is adopted.

Come hell or high water, adopted or my own. I am going to have, I must have some kids.