To Western parents that want to adopt a child, I would say to people that money is not everything, wealth does not matter.

I have spent most of my adult life proving that I existed. A blog is an accessible way of doing this - there is a date and place in cyberspace that I existed a year ago, to the day, and the proof is still there.

When somebody takes a child from their native culture, that is in itself an act of aggression.

My foster parents were very religious. They told me that they had not decided to take me in, rather that it was God that had decided it for them.

I've had job stability for years at a time. You really develop great relationships with the people you work with.

In romance, we feel the need to zoom in and expound on our partner's foibles in intimate detail; in friendship, we tend to do the opposite, avoiding confrontation through fear, lethargy or both.

The only thing that ever really bothers me is that a lot of people think I'm that girl who hates your boyfriend. I'm really not that girl. Some of my friends' boyfriends are my best friends.

Some people, myself in particular, have an adversarial relationship with the camera, and it sprouts up in every photograph.