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Moms in fiction and memoir get a bad rap.

I realized that making people feel irreplaceable was his gift.

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.

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

Being a kid is all about learning to bide time, proving just how unnatural it is to delay gratification.

Your father's the glitter but I'm the glue.

It's clear to you immediately that you can have anything you want when you have cancer.

You fly from thermal to thermal looking for lift.

Appreciation is the purest,strongest form of love. It is the outward-bound kind of love that asks for nothing and gives everything.

You have to speak your dream out loud.

My dad did a load a day, folding it in front of whatever Eagles, Flyers, or 76ers game was on TV.

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.

I don't know what to saw about a man who calls a perfectly adorable three-year old a fucker, but "my hero" comes to mind.

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

How seriously can I take myself? I'm just one of six billion people, right?

That to fly requires chaotic, sometimes even violent passages
becomes a metaphor for all of life's most meaningful endeavors.

Shortly before I turned 37 and my older daughter turned 3, I was diagnosed with breast cancer: stage III of IV.

I am an average mother in almost every way, so yes, much to my regret, I do yell at my children.

But given everything I do know, no matter how hard it is, how lonely or stressful, still, I would not want to leave this earth without being a mother.

I didn't know adults could be changed. I thought they were finished pieces, baked through and kiln dried.

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

Pel-i-cans, their beaks hold more than their bellies can.

(Motherhood) I want her to have this thing I have that's so ordinary and tedious and aggravating, and then, so divine.

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