It is a violation of trust to use your kids as caulking for the cracks in you. — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
It's almost like learning to meditate to learn to hear what your kid is actually saying. — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
After a while the middle-aged person who lives in her head begins to talk to her soul, the kid. — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
When I was a kid, our family used to watch 'Bonanza.' I really liked having a Sunday night TV ritual. — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
All parents are an embarrassment to their kids. Often, grandparents are the relief. Kids don't have to resist you. — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
I don't remember who said this, but there really are places in the heart you don't even know exist until you love… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Talking to the parents of older kids was helpful for me, since parents of kids the same age as yours won't admit… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
One thing I know for sure about raising children is that every single day a kid needs discipline.... But also every single… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
It's intrusive for grandparents to think they're in charge. It's manipulative. Also, it's self-destructive, since if the parents have to resist you,… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Most marriages are a mess, and the children get caught between two bitter, antagonistic parents. My parents stayed married for 27 unhappy… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
My theology is based on what I tell my Sunday-school kids - that they are loved and chosen, AS IS, now, today.… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Being on a book tour is like being on the seesaw when you're a little kid. The excitement is in having someone… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
The last song was so deep and raw and pure that I could not escape. It was as if the people were… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
When he sees little kids sitting in the backseat of cars, in those little car seats that have steering wheels, with grim… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
It's funny: I always imagined when I was a kid that adults had some kind of inner toolbox full of shiny tools:… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Left to my own devices, would I trade this for firm thighs, fewer wrinkles, a better memory? On some days. That's why… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Oh, my God. What if you wake up some day, and you're 65 or 75, and you never got your novel or… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
I don’t know why life isn’t constructed to be seamless and safe, why we make such glaring mistakes, things fall so short… — 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
