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1 " Maybe, one day, this would be the best thing that ever happened to me. "
― Kerry Fisher , The Woman I Was Before
2 " Realised what a privilege it was to be at home with my kids and how quickly it would go and how much I’d wish I could turn the clock back and do it better, with more grace and patience. Instead of feeling I’d lost out, robbed of a university education, the opportunity to try out in the world of work, seeing if I could cut it, if I was smart enough to make my mark. "
3 " My heart accepted her hurt, tucking it into that place within us where someone else’s pain crosses the threshold into our own world and lives there so boldly that it defines us nearly as acutely as it defines them. "
4 " No one ever lay on their deathbed wishing they’d spent more time in the office. "
5 " it is possible that other people have some good ideas and that allowing someone else to help you doesn’t make you weak, pathetic or ridiculous. It makes you someone who is strong but who needs a bit of support now and again. Like all of us. "
6 " There it was. The one syllable that defined and exasperated me. The word that made me who I was, even when I didn’t want to be, even when the demands of the role were too many, too painful, too bloody hard. The title that meant I could never be free again. Nor would I want to be. "
7 " The belonging to someone without having to try, that glorious freedom to be any old self, knowing that who you really were would never stop the other person loving you, never make them leave you. "
8 " Love is most of all the feeling that these are the people you are meant to be with. #FoundMyTribe. "
9 " I’d always said jokingly that low expectations were the key to greater happiness, "
10 " Sometimes I just didn’t have the energy to listen to his work woes when my own job required me to be super-sharp, especially now they’d promoted me "
11 " Those grey eyes holding mine, thoughtful. "
12 " between them, before my dad cleared his "
