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.
How seriously can I take myself? I'm just one of six billion people, right? - Kelly Corrigan
How seriously can I take myself? I'm just one of six billion people, right?
- Kelly Corrigan
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 … - Kelly Corrigan
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 …
That to fly requires chaotic, sometimes even violent passages--becomes a metaphor for all of life's most meaningful endeavors. - Kelly Corrigan
That to fly requires chaotic, sometimes even violent passages--becomes a metaphor for all of life's most meaningful endeavors.
We're never ready for the things that happen. When the big stuff happens, we're always looking in the other direction. - Kelly Corrigan
We're never ready for the things that happen. When the big stuff happens, we're always looking in the other direction.
I am an average mother in almost every way, so yes, much to my regret, I do yell at my children. - Kelly Corrigan
I am an average mother in almost every way, so yes, much to my regret, I do yell at my children.
I didn't know adults could be changed. I thought they were finished pieces, baked through and kiln dried. - Kelly Corrigan
I didn't know adults could be changed. I thought they were finished pieces, baked through and kiln dried.
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… - 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…
Appreciation is the purest,strongest form of love. It is the outward-bound kind of love that asks for nothing and gives everything. - Kelly Corrigan
Appreciation is the purest,strongest form of love. It is the outward-bound kind of love that asks for nothing and gives everything.
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 bar… - Kelly Corrigan
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 bar…
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