The Woman I Was Before Quotes

“Love is most of all the feeling that these are the people you are meant to be with. #FoundMyTribe.”
― Kerry Fisher, The Woman I Was Before

“Maybe, one day, this would be the best thing that ever happened to me.”
― Kerry Fisher, The Woman I Was Before

“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.”
― Kerry Fisher, The Woman I Was Before

“I’d always said jokingly that low expectations were the key to greater happiness,”
― Kerry Fisher, The Woman I Was Before

“No one ever lay on their deathbed wishing they’d spent more time in the office.”
― Kerry Fisher, The Woman I Was Before

“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.”
― Kerry Fisher, The Woman I Was Before

“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.”
― Kerry Fisher, The Woman I Was Before

“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.”
― Kerry Fisher, The Woman I Was Before

“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.”
― Kerry Fisher, The Woman I Was Before

“Mum!’ 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.”
― Kerry Fisher, The Woman I Was Before

“between them, before my dad cleared his”
― Kerry Fisher, The Woman I Was Before

“Those grey eyes holding mine, thoughtful.”
― Kerry Fisher, The Woman I Was Before

“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”
― Kerry Fisher, The Woman I Was Before