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1. "I've had cancer twice and if I had to pick one fate for you, cancer or fertility problems-I'd pick cancer." ~ Kelly Corrigan
2. "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." ~ Kelly Corrigan
3. "I am an average mother in almost every way, so yes, much to my regret, I do yell at my children." ~ Kelly Corrigan
4. "It's clear to you immediately that you can have anything you want when you have cancer." ~ Kelly Corrigan
5. "Moms in fiction and memoir get a bad rap." ~ Kelly Corrigan
6. "Shortly before I turned 37 and my older daughter turned 3, I was diagnosed with breast cancer: stage III of IV." ~ Kelly Corrigan
7. "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." ~ Kelly Corrigan
8. "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." ~ Kelly Corrigan
9. "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." ~ Kelly Corrigan
10. "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." ~ Kelly Corrigan
11. "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." ~ Kelly Corrigan
12. "My default answer to everything is no. As soon as I hear the inflection of inquiry in your voice, the word no forms in my mind, sometimes accompanies by a reason, often not. Can I open the mail? No. Can I wear your necklace? No. When is dinner? No. What you probably wouldn't believe is how much I want to say yes. Yes, you can take two dozen books home from the library. Yes, you can eat the whole roll of SweeTarts. Yes, you can camp out on the deck. But the books will get lost, and SweeTarts will eventually make your tongue bleed, and if you sleep on the deck, the neighborhood racoons will nibble on you. I often wish I could come back to life as your uncle, so I could give you more. But, when you're the mom, your whole life is holding the rope against those wily secret agents who never, ever stop trying to get you to drop your end." ~ Kelly Corrigan
13. "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." ~ Kelly Corrigan
14. "When you are in pain, and you see someone else in pain, there is really nothing as satisfying as giving them comfort in the night." ~ Kelly Corrigan
15. "That to fly requires chaotic, sometimes even violent passages--becomes a metaphor for all of life's most meaningful endeavors." ~ Kelly Corrigan
16. "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." ~ Kelly Corrigan
17. "How seriously can I take myself? I'm just one of six billion people, right?" ~ Kelly Corrigan
18. "Or maybe, knowing that intercourse involved certain unsavory sights, smells, and sounds, God deliberately left the ingredients for alcohol lying around where man would undoubtedly find them." ~ Kelly Corrigan
19. "He loved me the way only a nineteen-year old can- suddenly and deliriously." ~ Kelly Corrigan

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As soon as man enters into a state of society he loses the sense of his weakness; equality ceases, and then commences the state of war."
Author: Charles De Secondat

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