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Moms in fiction and memoir get a bad rap.
— Kelly Corrigan
I realized that making people feel irreplaceable was his gift.
— Kelly Corrigan
Like overzealous religious converts, climbers originally from the lower rungs of society tend to go overboard when they ape the upper class.
— Maureen Corrigan
Do you have a lover?" Or two.
— Nancy Corrigan
All of the disparate books on my list contain characters, scenes or voices that linger long past the last page of their stories.
— Maureen Corrigan
I think the influence of books is neither direct and more predictable. Books themselves are too unruly, and so are readers.
— Maureen Corrigan
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
We need now to build a culture of geniune nonviolence and real democracy.
— Mairead Corrigan
I believe we are on the edge of a quantum leap into a whole new way of organizing and living as a human family.
— Mairead Corrigan
I'm becoming the Fuhrer - the Fuhrer of Laughs!
— Mark Corrigan
So what if I don't really love her. Charles didn't really love Diana and they were alright. Sort of.
— Mark Corrigan
Our common humanity is more important than all the things that divide us.
— Mairead Corrigan
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
Being a kid is all about learning to bide time, proving just how unnatural it is to delay gratification.
— Kelly Corrigan
Careful, there's man love and there's business love, and never the twain shall meet.
— Mark Corrigan
Your father's the glitter but I'm the glue.
— Kelly Corrigan
My students should be afraid: choosing what kind of work you'll do to a great extent means choosing who you'll be.
— Maureen Corrigan
There's no such things as travel insurance when it comes to reading.
— Maureen Corrigan
Reading, my earliest refuge in the unknown world, made me want to venture into it.
— Maureen Corrigan
It's clear to you immediately that you can have anything you want when you have cancer.
— Kelly Corrigan
You can't decide how someone will go about loving you.
— Eireann Corrigan
Reading good books doesn't necessarily make one a good person - or a smarter, funnier, or more cultivated person, either.
— Maureen Corrigan
I'm just another reject slowly slipping out of the gene pool to get hoovered up by the sex industry.
— Mark Corrigan
Terry Eagleson says his family's aim was to have the words "We Were No Trouble" engraved on their gravestones.
— Maureen Corrigan
This life we endure - how strange, yet how jolly
— Chris Ware
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.
— Kelly Corrigan
You fly from thermal to thermal looking for lift.
— Kelly Corrigan
I miss that world from the safe distance of memory.
— Maureen Corrigan
She'd have to treat the interview more like risotto than instant rice, adding ingredients gradually while stirring gently.
— Maya Corrigan
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
[Her] idea of a fair trade--her lentils for your caviar.
— Maya Corrigan
All I'd wanted to be when I grew up was yours.
— Eireann Corrigan
Love is not jealous.
— Brian Jay Corrigan
Luckily, my job demands constant reading, otherwise I'd have to figure out some other excuse.
— Maureen Corrigan
Knocking back the wine and reaching for the cheap consolations of kimchee-scented Kleenex fiction
— Maureen Corrigan
If we want to reap the harvest of peace and justice in the future, we will have to sow seeds of nonviolence, here and now, in the present.
— Mairead Corrigan
You have to speak your dream out loud.
— Kelly Corrigan
The stigma of mental illness is first and foremost a social justice issue!
— Patrick W. Corrigan
Meekly swallowing and assimilating the customs of the more powerful has always been a strategy by which the less powerful have tried to fit in.
— Maureen Corrigan
During the Great Depression, the philosophy of grin-and-bear-it became a national coping mechanism.
— Maureen Corrigan
(Motherhood) I want her to have this thing I have that's so ordinary and tedious and aggravating, and then, so divine.
— Kelly Corrigan
The danger in reviewing and teaching literature for a living (is) you can develop a kind of knee-jerk superiority to the material you're decoding
— Maureen Corrigan
Mothering you is the first thing of consequence I have ever done.
— Kelly Corrigan
That to fly requires chaotic, sometimes even violent passages
becomes a metaphor for all of life's most meaningful endeavors. — Kelly Corrigan
becomes a metaphor for all of life's most meaningful endeavors. — Kelly Corrigan
My dad did a load a day, folding it in front of whatever Eagles, Flyers, or 76ers game was on TV.
— Kelly Corrigan
Fitzgerald's plot may suggest that the American Dream is a mirage, but his words make that dream irresistible.
— Maureen Corrigan
According to a Wall Street Journal article some 59 percent of Americans don t own a single book. Not a cookbook or even the Bible.
— Maureen Corrigan
soft and sweet to look at with a prickly personality and a streak of defiant personality. I smirked. Kitten. It suited her.
— Helen Harper
Constant reading pulled me away from the world of my childhood, the world of my parents.
— Maureen Corrigan
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
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.
— Kelly Corrigan
You are what you eat and read.
— Maya Corrigan
We need radical thinking, creative ideas, and imagination.
— Mairead Corrigan
One great hope lies in the fact that there is a new consciousness in our World, particularly among young people.
— Mairead Corrigan
We can rejoice and celebrate today because we are living in a miraculous time. Everything is changing and everything is possible.
— Mairead Corrigan
Shortly before I turned 37 and my older daughter turned 3, I was diagnosed with breast cancer: stage III of IV.
— Kelly Corrigan
I am an average mother in almost every way, so yes, much to my regret, I do yell at my children.
— Kelly Corrigan
Whatever (its) virtues, (the) writing explores the culture of work but marginalizes work itself.
— Maureen Corrigan
I didn't know adults could be changed. I thought they were finished pieces, baked through and kiln dried.
— Kelly Corrigan
It's easy to love kids who make you feel competent.
— Kelly Corrigan
For one to achieve success, one other must fail.
— Brett Corrigan
Prolonged travel in the alternate world of books can also make a reader more prone to fantasy thinking and estranged from his or her "real" life.
— Maureen Corrigan
Generations of readers, bored with their own alienating, repetitious jobs, have been mesmerized by Crusoe's essential, civilization-building chores.
— Maureen Corrigan
It's okay to be scared, but fear is different. Fear is when we let being scared prevent us from doing what love requires of us.
— Mairead Corrigan
Her "green light" was Harvard. "But if I don't get into Harvard, I will not die, right? The journey toward the dream is the most important thing.
— Maureen Corrigan
There are a lot of actors whom I love, who personalize their work. I want to know everything about them, like De Niro, like Gary Oldman.
— Kevin Corrigan
Frosties are just Cornflakes for people who can't face reality.
— Mark Corrigan
Readers, professional or casual, are alert to passages in a book that illuminate what was previously shadowy and formless.
— Maureen Corrigan
Inspiration can come from anywhere. But I do love actors. I wish I could drop a bunch of names, but there are just too many.
— Kevin Corrigan
Pel-i-cans, their beaks hold more than their bellies can.
— Kelly Corrigan