117 Quotes by Kelly Corrigan

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.

Resistance is suffering on permanent repeat.

Being in our lives *as they are* is probably one of the most common struggles people have.

I've had cancer twice and if I had to pick one fate for you, cancer or fertility problems-I'd pick cancer.

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.

Turbulence is the only way to get altitude – to get lift. Without turbulence the sky is just a big blue hole. Without turbulence, you sink.

It may be that loving children, radically and beyond reason, expands our capacity to love others, particularly our own mothers.

In addition to helping the girls parse the world, and all its awful truths - time only goes one way, things end, affections wax and wane - I was the sole distributor of the strongest currency they would ever know: maternal love.

She was, as all mothers are, my first everything. First refuge, first rival.