Mothers are supposed to listen and, afterward, to respond with some wisdom and perspective, but these things were not my mother's strong… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
I don't write about the intimate details of my cousins and aunts and uncles, and my mother and my father because it's… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
I was the angriest daughter on earth, and also, one of the most devoted. — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
My mother was a not-too-devoted atheist. She went to Episcopal church on Christmas Eve every year, and that was mostly it. — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
I’m probably just as good a mother as the next repressed, obsessive-compulsive paranoiac. — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Every woman's path is difficult, and many mothers were as equipped to raise children as wire monkey mothers. I say that without… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Most of me was glad when my mother died. She was a handful, but not in a cute, festive way. More in… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
[Her] work taught me that you could be all the traditional feminine things -- a mother, a lover, a listener, a nurturer… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
All these people keep waxing sentimental about how fabulously well I am doing as a mother, how competent I am, but I… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Mothering has been the richest experience of my life, but I am still opposed to Mother's Day. It perpetuates the dangerous idea… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
I am the woman I grew to be partly in spite of my mother, and partly because of the extraordinary love of… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“I've spent my whole life trying to get over having had Nikki for a mother, and I have to say that from… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Mother's Day celebrates a huge lie about the value of women: that mothers are superior beings, that they have done more with… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
My mother might find a thin gold chain at the back of a drawer, wadded into an impossibly tight knot, and give… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Bananas are great, as I believe them to be the only known cure for existential dread. Also, Mother Teresa said that in… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
I didn't write about my mother much in the third year after she died. I was still trying to get my argument… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“I prayed for my heart to soften, to forgive her, and love her for what she did give me--life, great values, a… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
And we've read scary books and watched scary movies and TV shows together. He's met monsters, ghouls, and demons on the page… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Having a child as a single mother was a crucible - maybe this is true for all parents. I got rid of… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
I know that if I feel any deprivation or fear [about money], the solution is to give. The solution is to go… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
There is something so tender about this to me, about being willing to have your makeup wash off, your eyes tear up,… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
I did not raise my son, Sam, to celebrate Mother's Day. I didn't want him to feel some obligation to buy me… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
You want to give me chocolate and flowers? That would be great. I love them both. I just don't want them out… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
I spent my whole life helping my mother carry around her psychic trunks like a bitter bellhop. So a great load was… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
No one is more sentimentalized in America than mothers on Mother's Day, but no one is more often blamed for the culture's… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
My mother's eyes were large and brown, like my son's, but unlike Sam's, they were always frantic, like a hummingbird who can't… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“Jesus is busy with his own stuff, and is not going to get involved in your little tug-of-war. Plus, don't forget, he… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Intelligence, goodness, humanity, excitement, serenity. Over time, these are the things that change the musculature of your face, as do laughter, and… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Now. Maybe you think it is arrogant or self centered, or ridiculous for me to believe that God bothered to wiggle a… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
I guess he'll have to figure out someday that he is supposed to have this dark side, that it is part of what it… — Anne Lamott Copy Share
Why couldn't Jesus command us to obsess over everything, to try to control and manipulate people, to try not to breathe at all, or… — Anne Lamott Copy Share
Your problem is how you are going to spend this one odd and precious life you have been issued. Whether you're going to spend… — Anne Lamott Copy Share
And yet, I do believe there is ultimately meaning in the chaos, and also in the doldrums. What I resist is not the truth… — Anne Lamott Copy Share
Raising a child, whether or not it is yours, is like Nautilus of the heart and soul. — Anne Lamott Copy Share
“I heard a preacher say recently that hope is a revolutionary patience; let me add that so is being a writer. Hope begins in… — Anne Lamott Copy Share
“I think perfectionism is based on the obsessive belief that if you run carefully enough, hitting each stepping-stone just right, you won't have to… — Anne Lamott Copy Share
We are going to die, as is everyone we adore - I hate this! But the question is, how do we live as women… — Anne Lamott Copy Share
“You will go through your life thinking there was a day in second grade that you must have missed, when the grown-ups came in… — Anne Lamott Copy Share
“You begin to string words together like beads to tell a story. You are desperate to communicate, to edify or entertain, to preserve moments… — Anne Lamott Copy Share
“You lose the known package of your nice organized self almost instantly here. Overeating is one way back, the way it is at funerals… — Anne Lamott Copy Share
![“[Her] work taught me that you could be all the traditional feminine things -- a mother, a lover, a listener, a nurturer -- and you could also be critically astute and radical and have a minority opinion that was profoundly moral.” quote by Anne Lamott](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/e09/anne-lamott-188_astute_her-work-taught-me-that-you-could-be-all_2991247.jpg)
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