Kelly Corrigan Quotes

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• I envy my dad and his faith. I envy all people who have someone to beseech, who know where they're going, who sleep under the…
• And it occurs to me that maybe the reason my mother was so exhausted all the time wasn’t because she was doing so much but…
• That to fly requires chaotic, sometimes even violent passages--becomes a metaphor for all of life's most meaningful endeavors.
• Raising people is not some lark. It's serious work with serious repercussions. It's air-traffic control. You can't step out for a minute; you can barely…
• The mother is the most essential piece on the board, the one you must protect. Only she has the range. Only she can move in…
• I didn't know adults could be changed. I thought they were finished pieces, baked through and kiln dried.
• Appreciation is the purest,strongest form of love. It is the outward-bound kind of love that asks for nothing and gives everything.
• He defined me first, as parents do. Those early characterizations can become the shimmering self-image we embrace or the limited, stifling perception we rail against…
• Even when all the paperwork-a marriage license, a notarized deed, two birth certificates, and seven years of tax returns-clearly indicates you're an adult, but all…
• We're never ready for the things that happen. When the big stuff happens, we're always looking in the other direction.
• It is one thing to be a man's wife - quite another to be the mother of his children. In fact, once you become a…
• We'll bury our mothers and fathers - shuttling our children off for sleepovers, jumping on red-eyes, telling eachother stories that hurt to hear, about gasping,…
• If John Lennon was right that life is what happens when you're making other plans, parenthood is what happens when everything is flipped over and…
• This tug-of-war often obscures what's also happening between us. I am your mother, the first mile of your road. Me and all my obvious and…
• You have to speak your dream out loud.
• Shortly before I turned 37 and my older daughter turned 3, I was diagnosed with breast cancer: stage III of IV.
• Cancer is a growth hormone for empathy, and empathy makes us useful to each other in ways we were not, could not have been, before.
• I am an average mother in almost every way, so yes, much to my regret, I do yell at my children.
• Moms in fiction and memoir get a bad rap.

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