“Voices for Life”: Famous quotes about adoption / “For Life” magazine, no. 2, Spring 2014

“I think adoption is a blessing all around when it’s done right.”

Hugh Jackman

“Not having children makes less work—but it makes a quiet house.”

Susan Glaspell, journalist, Pulitzer Prize winner

“The soul heals when you are around children.”

Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Russian writer

“Being a parent wasn’t just about bearing a child. It was about bearing witness to its life.”

Jodi Picoult, American writer

“Where do I come from? From my childhood. I come from my childhood as if it were a country!”

Antoine de Saint-Exupery, French writer

“In the houses with many children, like in the beautiful depths of the Romanian language, there’s no place left for boredom.”

Grigore Vieru, Moldavian poet

“Children are the hands by which we take hold of heaven.”

Henry Ward Beecher, American abolitionist pastor, brother of the author of Uncle Tom’s Cabin

“Anyone who thinks the art of conversation is dead ought to tell a child to go to bed.”

Robert Gallagher, American writer

“Wherever mother is, there is home.”

Felicity Martin, American writer and photographer