"The mother is the most essential piece on……" — Kelly Corrigan
"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 multiple directions. Once she's gone, it's a whole different game."
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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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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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If John Lennon was right that life is what happens when you're making other plans, parenthood is what happens when…
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