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Kelly Corrigan Quote: “As in most situations, it’s not important why someone hurts, only that they do.”

51. “As in most situations, it’s not important why someone hurts, only that they do.”

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Kelly Corrigan Quote: “The skin hungers for touch, from cradle to grave.”

52. “The skin hungers for touch, from cradle to grave.”

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Kelly Corrigan Quote: “I try to be one of the exceptional people who can live with the complexity of things, who are at peace with the unknown and the unknowable, who leave all the cages open. I tell myself: There’s so much that you don’t know, you can’t know, you aren’t ever going to know.”

53. “I try to be one of the exceptional people who can live with the complexity of things, who are at peace with the unknown and the unknowable, who leave all the cages open. I tell myself: There’s so much that you don’t know, you can’t know, you aren’t ever going to know.”

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Kelly Corrigan Quote: “There’s hardly a positive intention associated with no. Except self-preservation.”

54. “There’s hardly a positive intention associated with no. Except self-preservation.”

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Kelly Corrigan Quote: “It’s easy to love kids who make you feel competent.”

55. “It’s easy to love kids who make you feel competent.”

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Kelly Corrigan Quote: “According to my mother, the cornerstone of a proper apology is taking responsibility, and the capstone is naming the transgression. Contrition must be felt and conveyed. Finally, apologies are better served plain, hold the rationalizations. In other words, I’m sorry should be followed by a pause or period, not by but and never by you.”

56. “According to my mother, the cornerstone of a proper apology is taking responsibility, and the capstone is naming the transgression. Contrition must be felt and conveyed. Finally, apologies are better served plain, hold the rationalizations. In other words, I’m sorry should be followed by a pause or period, not by but and never by you.”

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Kelly Corrigan Quote: “The idea is that readers don’t come blank to books. Consciously and not, we bring all the biases that come with our nationality, gender, race, class, age. They you layer onto that the status of our health, employment, relationships, not to mention our particular relationship to each book – who gave it to us, where we read it, what books we’ve already read – and as my professor put it, ‘That massive array of spices has as much to do with the flavor of the soup as whatever the cook intended.”

57. “The idea is that readers don’t come blank to books. Consciously and not, we bring all the biases that come with our nationality, gender, race, class, age. They you layer onto that the status of our health, employment, relationships, not to mention our particular relationship to each book – who gave it to us, where we read it, what books we’ve already read – and as my professor put it, ‘That massive array of spices has as much to do with the flavor of the soup as whatever the cook intended.”

— Kelly Corrigan

Kelly Corrigan Quote: “He loved me the way only a nineteen-year old can- suddenly and deliriously.”

58. “He loved me the way only a nineteen-year old can- suddenly and deliriously.”

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59. “I snap and storm around and then spend long nights thinking of the most damaged adults I know and wondering if my particular brand of maternal fuckups are how they ended up like that.”

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Kelly Corrigan Quote: “Mothering you is the first thing of consequence I have ever done.”

60. “Mothering you is the first thing of consequence I have ever done.”

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Kelly Corrigan Quote: “Why we don’t value intellectual honesty beyond easy answers is beyond me.”

61. “Why we don’t value intellectual honesty beyond easy answers is beyond me.”

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Kelly Corrigan Quote: “Despair defies description.”

62. “Despair defies description.”

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Kelly Corrigan Quote: “You can’t be really loved if you can’t bear to be really known.”

63. “You can’t be really loved if you can’t bear to be really known.”

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Kelly Corrigan Quote: “It may be that loving children, radically and beyond reason, expands our capacity to love others, particularly our own mothers.”

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

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Kelly Corrigan Quote: “Reality always comes dressed in a point of view, try as we might to lay it bare.”

65. “Reality always comes dressed in a point of view, try as we might to lay it bare.”

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Kelly Corrigan Quote: “I realized that making people feel irreplaceable was his gift.”

66. “I realized that making people feel irreplaceable was his gift.”

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Kelly Corrigan Quote: “She was, as all mothers are, my first everything. First refuge, first rival.”

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

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Kelly Corrigan Quote: “The other problem with language is that arranging words into sentences requires we flip on our thinking machine, which necessarily claims some of our focus, so that as soon as we start deciding how to explain a feeling, we’re not entirely feeling the feeling anymore, and some feelings want to be felt at full capacity.”

68. “The other problem with language is that arranging words into sentences requires we flip on our thinking machine, which necessarily claims some of our focus, so that as soon as we start deciding how to explain a feeling, we’re not entirely feeling the feeling anymore, and some feelings want to be felt at full capacity.”

— Kelly Corrigan

Kelly Corrigan Quote: “How seriously can I take myself? I’m just one of six billion people, right?”

69. “How seriously can I take myself? I’m just one of six billion people, right?”

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Kelly Corrigan Quote: “Old people and their hyper-calibrated radar. They can’t hear a word, and they can barely get out of their chairs, but they’ve got six or seven other senses, scanning, collecting, decoding.”

70. “Old people and their hyper-calibrated radar. They can’t hear a word, and they can barely get out of their chairs, but they’ve got six or seven other senses, scanning, collecting, decoding.”

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Kelly Corrigan Quote: “Knowing people takes time, which we all swear we don’t have, or some mitigating circumstance like being caught in an elevator, or war.”

71. “Knowing people takes time, which we all swear we don’t have, or some mitigating circumstance like being caught in an elevator, or war.”

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Kelly Corrigan Quote: “On the matter of God, I’ve stood in every square on the board: obedient believer, secretly hopeful, open-but-dubious. I’ve walked away from the board entirely, only to circle back. Today, all I can say is: I don’t know what I think about God... I do know that I love many believers and pulse with gratitude that wants a locus and I wonder about the wonders I see around me and feel inside me. But I’m not sure of anything.”

72. “On the matter of God, I’ve stood in every square on the board: obedient believer, secretly hopeful, open-but-dubious. I’ve walked away from the board entirely, only to circle back. Today, all I can say is: I don’t know what I think about God... I do know that I love many believers and pulse with gratitude that wants a locus and I wonder about the wonders I see around me and feel inside me. But I’m not sure of anything.”

— Kelly Corrigan

Kelly Corrigan Quote: “Liberated by the simple act of saying no – which I submit is impressive for any woman, and downright radical for one raised in the Nice’n Easy generation – my mom had always been able to find outs where others could not. Looking back, I think it came down to her impressive willingness to be disliked and her utterly unromantic position that people should take serious – if not total – responsibility for their own happiness.”

73. “Liberated by the simple act of saying no – which I submit is impressive for any woman, and downright radical for one raised in the Nice’n Easy generation – my mom had always been able to find outs where others could not. Looking back, I think it came down to her impressive willingness to be disliked and her utterly unromantic position that people should take serious – if not total – responsibility for their own happiness.”

— Kelly Corrigan

Kelly Corrigan Quote: “The only mothers who never embarrass, harass, dismiss, discount, deceive, distort, neglect, baffle, appall, inhibit, incite, insult, or age poorly are dead mothers, perfectly contained in photographs, pressed into two dimensions like a golden autumn leaf.”

74. “The only mothers who never embarrass, harass, dismiss, discount, deceive, distort, neglect, baffle, appall, inhibit, incite, insult, or age poorly are dead mothers, perfectly contained in photographs, pressed into two dimensions like a golden autumn leaf.”

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Kelly Corrigan Quote: “Georgia once asked me if we really needed to talk so much on the ride home from school. She was happy to see me but wondered if she could be excused from showing it. She had talked all day, answered every adult’s every question and found a clever response to every dumb boy’s taunt and quip. By 3:45, she was ready to stare out the window and say nothing.”

75. “Georgia once asked me if we really needed to talk so much on the ride home from school. She was happy to see me but wondered if she could be excused from showing it. She had talked all day, answered every adult’s every question and found a clever response to every dumb boy’s taunt and quip. By 3:45, she was ready to stare out the window and say nothing.”

— Kelly Corrigan

Kelly Corrigan Quote: “I live within my means and worship my girlfriends, especially the ones who play cards and rag me about keeping the thermostat set too low. I don’t long for other mothers anymore; I don’t even wonder about them. I was meant to be her daughter, and I consider it a damn good thing that she, of all people, was the principal agent in my development.”

76. “I live within my means and worship my girlfriends, especially the ones who play cards and rag me about keeping the thermostat set too low. I don’t long for other mothers anymore; I don’t even wonder about them. I was meant to be her daughter, and I consider it a damn good thing that she, of all people, was the principal agent in my development.”

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Kelly Corrigan Quote: “MH and Leon had accepted the call to raise a child, not by railroading her into becoming a gratifying mashup of biology and dreams, but by allowing her to reveal her nature over time, in no particular order, with switchbacks and reversals along the way.”

77. “MH and Leon had accepted the call to raise a child, not by railroading her into becoming a gratifying mashup of biology and dreams, but by allowing her to reveal her nature over time, in no particular order, with switchbacks and reversals along the way.”

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Kelly Corrigan Quote: “It’s like a good book: You don’t have to be able to decode every passage to want to hug it when you finish.”

78. “It’s like a good book: You don’t have to be able to decode every passage to want to hug it when you finish.”

— Kelly Corrigan

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