Quotes by Kelly Corrigan - Page 1

You have to speak your dream out loud.
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Change
Dream
Motivational
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Moms in fiction and memoir get a bad rap.
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Memoir
Bad Rap
Moms
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How seriously can I take myself? I'm just one of six billion people, right?
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Billions
People
Six
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It's clear to you immediately that you can have anything you want when you have cancer.
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Cancer
Immediately
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I am an average mother in almost every way, so yes, much to my regret, I do yell at my children.
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Average
Children
Mother
Regret
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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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Adults
Changed
Pieces
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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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Daughter
Breast Cancer
Cancer
Diagnosed
Iii
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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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Bigs
Ready
Stuff Happens
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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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Meaningful
Metaphor
Sometimes
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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 everything.
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Appreciation
Smile
Form
Giving
Kind
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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.
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Cancer
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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 was doing so much but because she was feeling so much.
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Exhausted
Feelings
Mother
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I moved from Philadelphia to California when I was 25, after traveling abroad for a year. I thought I'd come home eventually and settle down, but I didn't.
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California
Moved
Philadelphia
Abroad
Settle
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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 fluffy white comforter of belief.
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Dad
Sleep
White
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It's funny, I'd rather be known as a writer who crafted a really nice piece about women's friendships over time. But that doesn't roll off the tongue like 'YouTube sensation.'
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Tongue
Youtube
Funny Time Women
Crafted
Friendships
Sensation
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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 a minute; you can barely pause to scratch your ankle.
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Air
Larks
People
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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, stifling perception we rail against for a lifetime.
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Parent
Perception
Self
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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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Games
Mother
Moving
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The truth is, I'd like to be closer to my kids. I'd like to share more with them. But that's not what this time in their lives is about. This is their time to separate, to self-direct, to become independent.
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Truth Is
Closer
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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 everything is flipped over and spilling everywhere and you can't find a towel or a sponge or your "inside" voice.
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Parenthood
Towels
Voice
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Growing up, I saw my mother cry exactly once. The morning of her brother's funeral. One long tear ran down her cheek through her make up until she caught it near her mouth and patted it dry with a tissue she pulled from inside her sleeve.
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Caught
Cry
Dry
Funeral
Ran
Cheek
Make Up
Mouth
Near
Pulled
Sleeve
Tear
Tissue
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I almost threw up the first time I set foot inside the University of California, San Francisco's Comprehensive Care Center and joined the stream of thin, slow-moving, low-voiced, gray-skinned people. I didn't want to be one of the pitied, the struck-down.
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California
Comprehensive
Time People Care
Center
Foot
Francisco
Time Care People
Joined
Pitied
San
Stream
Thin
Threw
University Of California
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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 you're an adult, but all the same, there you are, clutching the phone and thanking God that you're still somebody's daughter.
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Daughter
Phones
Years
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My readers often say to me, 'If we lived next door to each other, we'd be best friends.' That is precisely what I wanted to say to smart, funny, self-effacing Ellen McCarthy after I finished reading The Real Thing. I loved every lesson laid out in a book that wouldn't dare to call itself a field guide to marriage but amounts to as much on every page. This is a deeply useful little book.
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Book
Real
Smart
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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 hurt to hear, about gasping, agonal breaths, hospice nurses, scars and bruises and scabs, and how skin papers shortly after a person passes. We will nod in agreement that it is as much an honor to witness a person leave this world as it is to watch a person come into it.
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Children
Hurt
Mother
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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.
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Children
Mother
Teenager
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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 hidden limitations. That means that in addition to possibly wrecking you, I have the chance to give to you what was given to me: a decent childhood, more good memories than bad, some values, a sense of tribe, a run at happiness. You can't imagine how seriously I take that - even as I fail you. Mothering you is the first thing of consequence that I have ever done.
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Running
Memories
Mother
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