Miranda July Quotes

My dad was an only child. His father raised him all but alone after his mother abandoned the two of them. He was only three years old.

I came to Harlem from West Virginia when I was three, after my mother died. My father, who was very poor, gave me up to two wonderful people, my foster parents.

My mother died when I was 12, and right after, my dad died in a car crash. I was 15 and had no family. The court sent me to live with my uncle and aunt in Missouri.

Not everyone can be an orphan.

I've always been concerned with what happens to children in our society when there's nobody left to take care of them.

I ended up in Broadmeadows orphanage - I don't know how that happened - whether she gave me up for adoption or the church was responsible. Whatever happened, she was a single mum.

Orphans Preferred

I was put in White City children's home when I was 15.

I have said to myself that if I don't find the right person, I think I would probably adopt on my own, because I think I would be a great dad.

I'm like a child who belongs to nobody.

As my own father was sick, and miserably tied to his invalid's chair, he would have been abandoned had not an old servant performed for him a so-called service of love. My mother gave parties while he was perishing in solitude, and amused herself while he was suffering bitter agonies

Many people, for many reasons, feel rootless - but orphans and abandoned or abused children have particular cause.

I became the unnatural son of a few score of beaten men.

I never was coddled, or liked, or understood by my family.

Thousands of American children have only a cell, a hospital bed or a temporary shelter to call home.

I was worried if you adopted a foster child, someone from the birth family could still come and take her back. I was afraid that any child in foster care might have suffered such trauma or neglect that she would be impossible to reach. I'm not proud of these fears. But I understand now when others ask me the same questions.

My father, my Mormon father, took off when I was a young man and, or actually very young, I was like six years old, so a young boy.

I have a family member who was in the foster system briefly, and so I've kind of grown up knowing about it myself.

I'm not proud of this, but I had a lot of misconceptions about American foster care. To me, foster care meant that a child would be placed with you, then taken away. I didn't want to go through all of that.

I don't have the best family life. I'm not going to have a sob story and be like, my parents abandoned me, because they didn't. But they also are not that present. When I'm alone, I'm alone. I don't have anybody to call, and so I have to create meaning from myself.

I had no father. I had no mother after I was 8.

They said if I stayed in the orphanage for another month or so, I basically would not have been able to be alive.

I grew up in a family with three brothers and sisters who joined my family through the foster care program, and I also have a sister who joined my family through a faith-based organization.

Me and my older brother were taken from my mother at the same time so we were pretty tight.