Scott Simon Quotes

It was a sad process for me to become a mom, and a long process. I felt so embarrassed that I couldn't have a biological child.

The adoption process was not an easy one. The paperwork took nine months. It's a full-time thing!

Despite the reams of paperwork, obstacles worthy of a horse show, and a wait that can rival an elephant's gestation, adoption feels no different on the inside.

Adoption was something that was always under my skin, that I knew would be a part of my life, and, when I decided to start filing, it was very clear. It was like I knew that this was exactly what it needed to be. So then you go through the process, and it's tough. It's not the easiest process - and then again, I've never liked things too easy in life. But it emotionally knocks you out.

Becoming a mother is the best thing that has ever happened to me, I am happy to once again be a part of National Adoption Day. We were matched with our daughter through the U.S. foster care system, and my goal is to share information about the more than 120,000 foster care children in this country who are waiting for a family.

I absolutely want to have children, whether I have my own or adopt.

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

I don't think I'll do foster care or adopt, to be quite honest.

As an adoptive parent myself of foster children, I have seen firsthand the glaring problems of the system currently facing this Nation.

I can't wait to have kids. I want so many. I want to adopt and have my own.

I had a strong faith that I would, eventually, have a baby.

My husband and I vowed that after we married and settled down, we would become foster parents - a vow we kept and one that has enriched our lives greatly.

I most definitely want kids, but I'll probably adopt kids.

I've always wanted to adopt.

I have a whole new perspective on pregnancy and motherhood now that I'm experiencing it. Just because it's so hard and so confusing and so exciting. Women are so amazing that their bodies can do this and that they're strong enough to do this. I can't believe almost every woman goes through this, because it's so hard.

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

If you've never wept and want to, have a child.

Adoption was such a positive alternative to abortion, a way to save one life and brighten two more: those of the adoptive parents.

[Gilda Radner] was in the in vitro fertilization program, and it nearly, nearly drove us apart, too. She wanted that baby, so badly, and it didn't work. Oddly enough, when we were doing "Haunted Honeymoon" in London, she did become pregnant for about 10 days, but then she lost it. But, anyway, my odyssey with Gilda was wonderful, funny, torturous, painful and sad. It was - it went the full gamut.

I think I always knew that I wanted to adopt. It never meant that I didn't want to have my own children - I always felt that if I were in the right circumstances then I would totally have my own children.

I don't like waking up. I feel like staying in bed usually, but I can't because I've got two kids standing next to my bed, just eager to live another day.

It's so painful to be next to someone you feel strongly about and know you can't say the things you want to.

That is very important to me, to make fertility mainstream so everyone understands it. If you want to have your miracle child, there are options: adoption, surrogacy, fertility procedures. It is also sadly very expensive, and not all insurance companies cover it.

To me having a party is something like having a baby. The fact that you got through the last one alive is not somehow sufficiently reassuring now.

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.