Transcending: Words on Women and Strength by Kelly Corrigan

Author Kelly Corrigan wrote this moving essay about women's remarkable capacity to suport each other, to laugh together, and to endure. The full text is available in the paperback edition of her memoir, The Middle Place, on sale December 23, 2008.

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[anafbraz]

Kelly, I am brazilian and I just got your book. What I wanted to say is that no matter where we are from, we, women are the same. Same feelings, same worries, same love. And that's why the world is a great place to be. Because we are women and we carry the world with love. You really did a great job! Thank you.

[Brian Cronk]

I was with my mom in her final months and saw that experience as her final gift to me. What a gift to learn to see death as a process instead of a crisis.

[TheOriginalJena]

I still share this video with people. Please keep it on Youtube.

[Lori Pittman]

This is amazing! Our group is The STP's!!

[teddy1944sk]

Kelly....I LOVE the way you write your wonderful thoughts. Thank you for sharing your words both in writing and in reading to us! This piece talked so much about the relationship I have had with my wonderful mother. She is 91, recently moved to a longterm care home. In the past few months my mother has lost so much cognitive ground. I weep for what we no longer can share in words but the strength of her arms around me say more than words! You have inspired me to write again today! joanne

[fitntime1]

Love it!

[Roz Bishop]

WOW!!! THANK YOU!! WHAT A BEAUTIFUL GIFT I FOUND FOR IWD. JUST OUTSTANDING. IN 5 MINS YOU MOVED ME FROM CURIOUS TO A SMILE, TO TEARS AND TO A SENSE OFREAL SENSE OF BEING A WOMAN. THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU.

[greeneyes1967]

This is one of the most beautiful things I have seen!

[Jacki79]

YESHUA BLESSINGS

[Velya Jancz-Urban]

In the English language, there is no word that describes this sort of group of female friends. We intend to have the name Chica Peeps fill that void and become the household expression for groups of women that hang out together.