Jennifer Gilmore Quotes

• It would be a lie to say that people are coming to adoption with joy at all times. Hope, perhaps, but it would be disingenuous to say that every part coming to an adoption isn't seriously grieving.

  Jennifer Gilmore

  Lying, Grieving, People

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• I will say in open adoption, all these choices you make about race, about the amount of mental illness you can deal with, about special needs and physical maladies, you have to lay all this out there before you know anybody's story.

  Jennifer Gilmore

  Race, Adoption, Choices

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

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• With domestic adoption, you get a form, you fill it out, and there are these boxes: African-American, African-American and Hispanic, and you check the boxes that you're comfortable with. Race is completely open in that regard.

  Jennifer Gilmore

  Race, Adoption, African American

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• I feel like if writers used writing as therapy we'd have a ton of happy writers.

  Jennifer Gilmore

  Writing, Used, Feels

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• My father is an economist who specialized in foreign food policy, and my mother worked for AID, a branch of the State Department, so food in regards to world affairs was talked about a lot.

  Jennifer Gilmore

  Mother, Father, World

  Interview with Jennifer Haupt, www.psychologytoday.com. March 8, 2011.

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• I wanted a baby of color, to be honest, because I wasn't attached to the idea that I look like the biological mother. I liked the idea of the adoption being clear; it was and is not something I am interested in hiding.

  Jennifer Gilmore

  Mother, Baby, Color

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• I think that when the world feels safe and secure, we probably feel more that way in our personal lives. What goes on in the world affects us, unequivocally.

  Jennifer Gilmore

  Thinking, Goes On, World

  Interview with Jennifer Haupt, www.psychologytoday.com. March 8, 2011.

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• The past always sort of haunts us and perhaps inspires us in some ways.

  Jennifer Gilmore

  Past, Inspire, Way

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• I think publishing's strength is also its weakness. It's got such a rich and celebrated history as an industry. For the most part, publishing people are incredibly creative, business is done based on the strength of relationships, and the product being peddled is books.

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  Book, Thinking, People

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• I know publishing now more as an author than with occasional peaks inside those elite offices than as an industry insider. It was difficult publishing a novel the first time around, while working behind the scenes, knowing all that has to happen to make a book a success and to still make the leap as an author.

  Jennifer Gilmore

  Book, Knowing, Office

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• I couldn't really experience being an author when I was still working in publishing - I was trying to negotiate being both. Sometimes the knowledge doesn't translate between the two roles.

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  Two, Trying, Roles

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• Idea of the generations continuing is really important. And that's interesting to me. I write about families; I'm interested in families. Even though I think a family can be just two people or two people and a dog, I really wanted children for that reason.

  Jennifer Gilmore

  Dog, Children, Writing

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• Publishing in a way doesn't have a lot to do with writing, and writing doesn't have a lot to do with publishing.

  Jennifer Gilmore

  Writing, Way, Publishing

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• As writers, we don't just need to write about poverty or war or the immigrant experience.

  Jennifer Gilmore

  War, Writing, Needs

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• History releases me from my own experience and jogs my fictional imagination.

  Jennifer Gilmore

  Imagination, Release, My Own

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• I think we think that parenthood is confined to the country of mothers, but I think a lot of the men I've spoken to and the men who have read my books - I've been surprised by this actually - have a fierce attachment to being parents and to being fathers. And just as we, a lot of women I know, want this, men too want to pass down what they have to pass down.

  Jennifer Gilmore

  Country, Mother, Father

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• I feel sometimes like a book tour is a slow series of humiliations and that if you're strong you'll come out of it OK.

  Jennifer Gilmore

  Strong, Book, Sometimes

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• I find I have to touch what I am working on every day, or a deep-seated dread kicks in that is very hard to overcome.

  Jennifer Gilmore

  Overcoming, Dread, Kicks

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• I really don't feel that writing is therapy.

  Jennifer Gilmore

  Writing, Feels, Therapy

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• People might seem to have a perfectly fine life but inside, we don't even know if they've suffered.

  Jennifer Gilmore

  People, Might, Fine

  Source: www.glamour.com

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

  Jennifer Gilmore

  Adoption, Want, Open Adoption

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

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• I'm a morning person: if I don't get up, put the coffee on and get to my desk by 8, the day has already lost a lot of its promise.

  Jennifer Gilmore

  Morning, Coffee, Promise

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• The birth mother is placing the baby out of love. I still believe that. Well, the ones weve dealt with who were actually pregnant, anyway.

  Jennifer Gilmore

  Mother, Baby, Believe

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• My first two novels were set in the past, and that freed me up in a lot of ways; it allowed me to find my way into my story and my characters through research.

  Jennifer Gilmore

  Character, Past, Two

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• The process of open adoption is not discussed in the way it should be. Everyone I know who has adopted domestically has at least one tragic story. It was important to me to be able to describe those situations.

  Jennifer Gilmore

  Adoption, Important, Way

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