Quotes by : Kelly Corrigan

But the smell of the hospital, the sting of those overhead lights in the night, the snippets of conversations....

I snap and storm around and then spend long nights thinking of the most damaged adults I know and wondering....

I had thought a good mother would not elicit such comments, but now I see that a good mother is required....

The mother is the most essential piece on the board, the one you must protect. Only she has the range.....

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

If John Lennon was right that life is what happens when you're making other plans, parenthood is what....

Pulling at the hem of my emotion was the creeping sense that it might well take until 2036 for this child....

At first parenthood was as I had expected, exhausting, sometimes heinous, and occasionally divine. I....

And it occurs to me that maybe the reason my mother was so exhausted all the time wasn’t because she....

It's easy to love kids who make you feel competent.