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"The baby explodes into an unknown world that is only knowable through some kind of a story - of course that is how we all live, it's the narrative of our lives, but adoption drops you into the story after it has started. It's like reading a book with the first few pages missing. It's like arriving after curtain up. The feeling that something is missing never, ever leaves you - and it can't, and it shouldn't, because something IS missing. That isn't of its nature negative. The missing part, the missing past, can be an opening, not a void. It can be an entry as well as an exit. It is the fossil record, the imprint of another life, and although you can never have that life, your fingers trace the space where it might have been, and your fingers learn a kind of Braille."
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"My adoption was treated as a celebration."
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"The baby explodes into an unknown world that is only knowable through some kind of a story - of course that is how we all live, it's the narrative of our lives, but adoption drops you into the story after it has started. It's like reading a book with the first few pages missing. It's like arriving after curtain up. The feeling that something is missing never, ever leaves you - and it can't, and it shouldn't, because something IS missing. That isn't of its nature negative. The missing part, the missing past, can be an opening, not a void. It can be an entry as well as an exit. It is the fossil record, the imprint of another life, and although you can never have that life, your fingers trace the space where it might have been, and your fingers learn a kind of Braille."
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"Adoption isn't just a childhood experience, it's a life-long experience."
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"The spirit of logical analysis should in practice blend with the practical pressure for the adoption of some form of international language, but it should not allow itself to be stampeded by it."
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"If you are financially affluent, think of adopting a kid and raise him or her right next to your biological offspring. And let your love become the proof of your parenthood, instead of your DNA."
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"I never wanted children. If I'd been deeply in love with a man and he'd wanted children, it would have been difficult."
Love
"Always in my books, I like to throw that rogue element into a stable situation and then see what happens."
Books
"I am a writer who happens to love women. I am not a lesbian who happens to write."
Love
"If you continually write and read yourself as a fiction, you can change what's crushing you."
Change
"Confidence and superiority: It's the usual fundamentalist stuff: I've got the truth, and you haven't."
Truth
"I like to think the price I paid by being open about my private life helped."
Life
"I never cared about money."
Money
"Academics love to make theories about a body of work, but each book consumes the writer and is the sum of his or her world."
Love
"I wanted to cause trouble, but I know now it stays with you."
Cause