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 phy…

- Jennifer Gilmore

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…

- Jennifer Gilmore

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 th…

- Jennifer Gilmore

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

- Jennifer Gilmore

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 …

- Jennifer Gilmore

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, unequi…

- Jennifer Gilmore

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 adoptio…

- Jennifer Gilmore

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 …

- Jennifer Gilmore

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

- Jennifer Gilmore