"Shortly before I turned 37 and my older……" — Kelly Corrigan
"Shortly before I turned 37 and my older daughter turned 3, I was diagnosed with breast cancer: stage III of IV."
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19 Quotes by Kelly Corrigan
Kelly Corrigan has 19 quotes on this site.
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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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More Breast Quotes
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one of 547 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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There is no dream of love, however ideal it may be, which does not end up with a fat, greedy…
— Charles Baudelaire
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Breast-feeding is the natural, optimal way to feed a child.
— Mayim Bialik
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O Death, rock me asleep, bring me to quiet rest, let pass my weary guiltless ghost out of my careful…
— Anne Boleyn
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I think they say that when you're breast feeding, you know, your weight kind of slims down. It's a little…
— Christina Aguilera
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I had been afraid of breast cancer, as I suspect most women are, from the time I hit adolescence. At…
— Geraldine Brooks
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One who never turned his back but marched breast forward, never doubted clouds would break, Never dreamed, though right were…
— Robert Browning
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People say, 'You're still breast-feeding, that's so generous.' Generous, no! It gives me boobs and it takes my thighs away!…
— Helena Bonham Carter
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No one understands my ills, nor the terror that fills my breast, who does not know the heart of a…
— Marie Antoinette
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Get up tomorrow early in the morning, and earlier than you did today, and do the best that you can.…
— Joan of Arc
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My mom [has] always been my hero. Watching her experience something like breast cancer was pivotal, I think in my…
— Emma Stone
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A person who suffers bitterly when slighted or insulted should recognize from this that he still harbors the ancient serpent…
— Symeon the New Theologian
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Motherhood cannot finally be delegated. Breast-feeding may succumb to the bottle; cuddling, fondling, and paediatric visits may also be done…
— Erica Jong
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