I pray not to be such a whiny, self-obsessed baby, and give thanks that I am not quite as bad as I… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Toddlers can make you feel as if you have violated some archaic law in their personal Koran and you should die, infidel. — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
I knew that the world was a harsh place, and my family was a mess, and even though I danced as fast… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
And that almost everyone was struggling to wake up, to be loved, and not feel so afraid all the time. That's what… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
I see that children fill the existential hollowness many people feel; that when we have children, we know they will need us,… — 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
Jealousy always has been my cross, the weakness and woundedness in me that has most often caused me to feel ugly and… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
It feels like I'm babysitting in the Twilight Zone. I keep waiting for the parents to show up because we are out… — 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
Part of me loves and respects men so desperately, and part of me thinks they are so embarrassingly incompetent at life and… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
It's incredibly touching when someone who seems so hopeless finds a few inches of light to stand in and makes everything work… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
We all often feel like we are pulling teeth, even those writers whose prose ends up being the most natural and fluid.… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Dialogue that is written in dialect is very tiring to read. If you can do it brilliantly, fine. If other writers read… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
I do not understand how deeply people seem to like my work - but I love that people feel I have helped… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
I still encourage anyone who feels at all compelled to write to do so. I just try to warn people who hope… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
No matter how people mess with you or let you down, or how you let yourself down, a good book means that… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
There are these people who keep taking you in and feeding you and loving you and making the world a tiny bit… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
I still encourage anyone who feels at all compelled to write to do so. I just try to warn people who hope… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Sometimes this human stuff is slimy and pathetic...but better to feel it and talk about it and walk through it than to… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
A good marriage is where both people feel like they're getting the better end of the deal. — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
I feel incredibly successful. I make a living as a writer and am able to help support a big family, my church,… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Sometimes it feels like God has reached down and touched me, blessed me a thousand times over, and sometimes it all feels… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Sometimes, no matter how screwed up things seem, I feel like we're all at a wedding. But you can't just come out… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
I cry intermittently, like a summer rain. I don't feel racked by the crying; in fact, it hydrates me. Then rage wells… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Over and over I feel as if my characters know who they are, and what happens to them, and where they have… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
If you always dreamed of writing a novel or a memoir, and you used to love to write, and were pretty good… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
if you want to know how God feels about money, look at whom she gives it to. — 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
Jealousy has always been my cross, the weakness and woundedness in me that has most often caused me to feel ugly and… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Two things put me in the spirit to give. One is that I have come to think of everyone with whom I… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
You are going to feel like hell if you never write the stuff that is tugging on the sleeves in your heart--your… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Write regularly, whether you feel like writing or not, and whether you think what you're writing is any good or not. — 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 Image
It's funny where we look for salvation, and where we actually find it. — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
Raising a child, whether or not it is yours, is like Nautilus of the heart and soul. — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
![“I know that if I feel any deprivation or fear [about money], the solution is to give. The solution is to go find some mothers on the streets of San Raphael and give them tens and twenties and mail off another $50 to Doctors Without Borders to use for the refugees in Kosovo. Because I know that…” quote by Anne Lamott](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/0c7/anne-lamott-188_borders_i-know-that-if-i-feel-any-deprivation-or_1166824.jpg)
