Welcome to Surrogate Quotes, your go-to destination for a curated collection of quotes on the topic of surrogacy. Surrogacy, a practice where a woman carries a pregnancy for another individual or couple, has become an increasingly prevalent option for those unable to conceive or carry a child on their own. It’s a deeply personal and complex journey, often filled with joy, challenges, and profound emotions.
Within these pages, you’ll find insightful and thought-provoking quotes that capture the diverse experiences and perspectives surrounding surrogacy. From intended parents navigating the uncertainties and hopes of parenthood to surrogates generously offering the gift of carrying a child for others, these quotes reflect the depth of human connection and compassion involved in this remarkable process. Whether you’re considering surrogacy, have personal experience with it, or simply want to gain insight into this unique aspect of human reproduction, you’ll find inspiration and understanding within these quotes. Discover words that resonate with your own journey, whether it’s one of gratitude, resilience, or the profound bond between surrogate and intended parent. Explore the world of surrogacy through the lens of those who have lived it, and let their words illuminate the beauty and complexity of this extraordinary path to parenthood. Now, without further ado, delve into the wisdom and warmth of surrogacy through the quotes below.
I think one of the biggest misconceptions is that this is somehow a stranger who is carrying your child. And this is absolutely not true. Your surrogate becomes one of your best friends and a member of your family. Dustin Lance Black
My mother, father, stepmother and surrogate mother have all died of cancer; my best friend has got terminal cancer and at least five of my other friends have had cancer but survived it. Arabella Weir
Most married men are completely jealous of my existence – the way it’s designed. As far as, surrogate wife, surrogate kids. Bruce Buffer
Those that don’t know that I’ve gone through so many IVF treatments, and I’ve gone through six cycles to get this child, that’s on its way via surrogate, biological child – and it’s been great. GloZell
We chose to use a surrogate as the way we wanted to start our family, particularly as I was traveling across the globe on a stressful schedule to get stores open. Dylan Lauren
It’s interesting how Rod Stewart can father a child at 65, and a straight, single footballer named Cristiano Ronaldo can arrange to have a surrogate have a baby, and neither of them receives any criticism. David Furnish
My wife and I had been trying a while to have a baby. We tried a bunch of things – so we had a surrogate. Jimmy Fallon
But when I would see the surrogate, my first instinct, my first reaction would be jealousy, because she was doing what I wanted to do. Cheryl Tiegs
I have a lot of surrogate parents, but there’s no one like your mother. Yance Ford
I’ve never been a surrogate for Bernie, Hillary, or the DNC. DeRay Mckesson
We will not allow the use of crypto-currency as a surrogate money. Elvira Nabiullina
What’s beautiful about the journey of surrogacy is that relationship you build with your surrogate, when it’s done in places with good law. These aren’t women you stop speaking to once your child is born, this is someone who’s part of your family. Dustin Lance Black
I used to love watching that programme ’19 Kids And Counting’ and I thought I might just keep going and have 19 kids myself. I had these big plans to home-school them all and I even wanted to be a surrogate as well. Nadine Coyle
I was a surrogate for Obama; I helped fundraise. I’m still a supporter. Brian J. White
Art and literature are my surrogate religions. Peter Shaffer
Some of my teammates and coaches don’t understand what I’m doing by speaking out, but they support me, for which I am grateful. They have become part of my surrogate family here in the United States. Enes Kanter
Diverse forms of memory can have a variety of gaps. Thus it is possible for me to represent a past situation to myself and be unable to remember my inner behavior in this situation. As I transfer myself back into this situation, a surrogate for the missing memory comes into focus. Edith Stein
We love and adore our surrogate, we speak to her and her family constantly, I’m sure our son will speak to her for the rest of his life as well. Dustin Lance Black
If society becomes comfortable with cloning and sees value in true human diversity, then the whole Neanderthal creature itself could be cloned by a surrogate mother chimp – or by an extremely adventurous female human. George M. Church
Yes, the state must intervene to prevent the exploitation of poor Indian women who are enticed or coerced into surrogacy, as well as to protect the rights of surrogate children. However, it should also be empathetic to individuals with alternative lifestyles who are well within their legal and human rights to demand access to surrogacy services. Kapil Sibal
Writing ‘Hoop Roots’ was a substitute or a surrogate activity. I can’t play anymore – my body won’t cooperate – so in the writing of the book, I was looking to tell a good story about my life and about basketball, but I was also looking to entertain myself the way that I entertain myself when I play. John Edgar Wideman
I told her I wanted a plastic surgeon to sew me up, and I wanted her to freeze my ovaries, so I could harvest the eggs and have a biological child through a surrogate. Fran Drescher
The only chief surrogate for Glenn Youngkin is Glenn Youngkin. Glenn Youngkin
I’m happiest walking through fields, on beaches, and over riverbanks. Nature is my surrogate mother. Marco Pierre White
The use of crypto-currency as a surrogate for the ruble in trading in goods and services, in our opinion, has a risk of undermining the circulation of money. Elvira Nabiullina
The Vatican is against surrogate mothers. Good thing they didn’t have that rule when Jesus was born. Elayne Boosler
For me, and maybe for many religious kids of the ’60s, the church lost relevance the more it became a surrogate in the movement for social and political change. Mike McCurry
I have no regrets. I had an amazing surrogate who carried my son for me. I am so grateful to her. I can even say I am grateful for having cancer. I was always meant to be a mom, but if I didn’t have cancer, I never would have had Zev. I would have had a kid, but not Zev, and I want Zev – tantrums and all. Marissa Jaret Winokur
I just don’t know when, as a society… it sort of only became OK to represent gay people in the traditional sense, where they have a great job and well-adjusted parents and maybe a surrogate or adopted child. When was that the only way you could represent gay people? Jordan Gavaris
My father wanted a boy badly and didn’t get one, so I was happy to be the surrogate boy. I was very strong, always doing manual labour. Cornelia Parker
There was a friend of ours who worked with a girl who had said she would consider being a surrogate. We met her and right away she was awesome. We were looking for someone who could take care of themselves and it was pretty clear she could. Christopher Meloni
Israel is the agent and surrogate of the United States and as such is treated entirely differently from every other country in the region. How can anyone expect Iran to accept that it is right for Israel to have nuclear weapons while itself being disallowed? Martin Jacques
But presidential approval also became a surrogate measure of national unity and patriotism. Thomas E. Mann
The government must adopt a rights-based approach that speaks to the needs and aspirations of surrogate mothers, children born out of surrogacy, and all individuals who want access to altruistic surrogacy services. Kapil Sibal
I’m just so grateful I had a wonderful surrogate who carried our two children. I have two amazing angels in my life that I love so much. They are such a gift and a blessing from God. Camille Grammer
A strong police presence keeps individuals involved in ‘street life’ from triggering the most severe penalties of the law by providing a surrogate for the self-control and parental oversight that they lack. Heather Mac Donald
We should be forced to give so many exemptions and concessions (inevitably to the benefit of high spending authorities in Inner London) that the flat-rate poll tax would rapidly become a surrogate income tax. Nigel Lawson
Most American films have now become mindless. The human element has been removed, so you are just left with the surrogate human, which is the robot, so coincidentally or, rather, ironically, they are making films about robots, without realising they are talking about themselves. Steven Berkoff
It took three years from talking about it, to meeting with Wendie Wilson-Miller from ‘Gifted Journeys’ Surrogacy, to finding the right doctor, to doing the egg retrieval and finding the right surrogate. GloZell
For my own family, I would always choose the makeshift, surrogate family formed by various characters unrelated by blood. Anne Tyler
I’m not a policy wonk – I’m somewhere between being undecided and a surrogate. Jimmy Smits
All the time I was playing the flute, the lines, the solos, the riffs, the construction, were based on my guitar skills. I did not play the flute to exploit its natural faculties, but I used it as a surrogate guitar. Ian Anderson
The surrogate is feeling pregnant! And a little sick. She thinks it’s a girl. GloZell
Teachers are expected to be teachers, psychiatrists, nurses, sociologists, psychologists, surrogate moms or dads, as the case may be. John Kennedy
Oscar Hammerstein was a surrogate father during all those many days, and weeks and months when I didn’t see my own father. Stephen Sondheim
Surrogate motherhood has been the subject of much philosophical and political dispute over the years. Thomas Frank
I don’t run democracy. I train troops to defend democracy and I happen to be their surrogate father and mother as well as their commanding general. Alfred M. Gray
