"Moms in fiction and memoir get a bad…" — Kelly Corrigan
"Moms in fiction and memoir get a bad rap."
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19 Quotes by Kelly Corrigan
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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…
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And it occurs to me that maybe the reason my mother was so exhausted all the time wasn’t because she…
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That to fly requires chaotic, sometimes even violent passages--becomes a metaphor for all of life's most meaningful endeavors.
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Raising people is not some lark. It's serious work with serious repercussions. It's air-traffic control. You can't step out for…
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The mother is the most essential piece on the board, the one you must protect. Only she has the range.…
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I didn't know adults could be changed. I thought they were finished pieces, baked through and kiln dried.
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Appreciation is the purest,strongest form of love. It is the outward-bound kind of love that asks for nothing and gives…
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He defined me first, as parents do. Those early characterizations can become the shimmering self-image we embrace or the limited,…
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Even when all the paperwork-a marriage license, a notarized deed, two birth certificates, and seven years of tax returns-clearly indicates…
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We're never ready for the things that happen. When the big stuff happens, we're always looking in the other direction.
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It is one thing to be a man's wife - quite another to be the mother of his children. In…
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We'll bury our mothers and fathers - shuttling our children off for sleepovers, jumping on red-eyes, telling eachother stories that…
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I went through a phase where I thought nostalgia was a bad thing.
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Characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner.
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Bad men are full of repentance.
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It is the role of good journalism to take on powerful abusers, and when powerful abusers are taken on, there's…
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Bad things are not the worst things that can happen to us. Nothing is the worst thing that can happen…
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I would not suggest the U.S. should sit down with the North Koreans bilaterally immediately after they've fired missiles -…
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There are some forms of religion that are bad, just as there's bad cooking or bad art or bad sex,…
— Karen Armstrong
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If my forgeries looked as bad as the CBS documents, it would have been 'Catch Me In Two Days'.
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People that go through what I went through and people going through divorce, it's really a difficulty process; it's heartbreaking…
— David Arquette
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If I were to say, 'God, why me?' about the bad things, then I should have said, 'God, why me?'…
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From my close observation of writers... they fall into two groups: 1) those who bleed copiously and visibly at any…
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The problem with leaderless uprisings taking over is that you don't always know what you get at the other end.…
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