"It is one thing to be a man's……" — Kelly Corrigan

It is one thing to be a man's wife - quite another… - Kelly Corrigan

"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 mother, being a wife seems like a game you once played or a self-help book you were overly impressed with as a teenager that on second reading is puffy with common ideas. This was one of the many things I had learned since crossing over into the middle place - that sliver of time when childhood and parenthood overlap."

— Kelly Corrigan

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