Nia Vardalos Quotes

I'd like to adopt an older child, maybe 5 years old.

I've started the adoption process... I really want to be a mommy.

I'd adopt an older child, not a baby.

Adoption is rewarding. But the process, as we have already detailed in some particulars, can be expensive, exhausting, and hard to sustain on a dream, much less a whim.

I'm not adopting a baby.

You are under great scrutiny when you are adopting, more so than natural parents. There are a lot of interviews, screenings etc.

I was adopted when I was a baby. My mother carried me for nine months and she held me for one hour, and didn't see me again.

I've wanted to adopt since I was eight, nine years old. I really do think I will.

If I have kids, I'll adopt.

Would-be adoptive parents have to struggle for years through a bureaucratic obstacle course at an average cost of $30,000.

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

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 knew I would adopt. Always.

I say to everybody, 'Adoption is not for the faint of heart.'

Adoption is a global issue these days - it's certainly current - and it's encouraging for a lot of couples whether they're straight or gay.

I want to have and adopt. I always have; ever since I was 18, I wanted a baby, and I wanted to have and adopt because there are a lot of kids. I want to adopt an American baby though, you know what I mean, no offense. Just because there are so many kids here that need our help.

I've been involved in the offering-up-adoption-as-another-choice business for a long time.

If it was possible for me to adopt, I probably would, but no one's going to let me adopt.

There's a lot of people in my family who've adopted children.

Adoption was a bumpy ride - very bumpy. But, God, was it worth the fight.

Adoption has been a part of my life and a part of my family, so it was how I wanted to start. It felt natural and right to me.

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.

A full accounting of adoption as an option would not underestimate its emotional challenges - the grief and loss for birth mothers, the uncertainties for adoptive parents operating under a patchwork of state laws.

We have so many kids in America to be adopted, but it's expensive. All these families that want children aren't able to because of the financial aspect, and that, to me, is just the most disgusting thing ever.

We've heard some theories, but there is a lot of mystery surrounding my adoption.