Mother Quotes by Anne Lamott

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

I was the angriest daughter on earth, and also, one of the most devoted.

— Anne Lamott

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

I’m probably just as good a mother as the next repressed, obsessive-compulsive paranoiac.

— Anne Lamott

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

“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

I am the woman I grew to be partly in spite of my mother, and partly because of the extraordinary love of…

— Anne Lamott

[Her] work taught me that you could be all the traditional feminine things -- a mother, a lover, a listener, a nurturer…

— Anne Lamott

All these people keep waxing sentimental about how fabulously well I am doing as a mother, how competent I am, but I…

— Anne Lamott

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

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

Most of me was glad when my mother died. She was a handful, but not in a cute, festive way. More in…

— Anne Lamott

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

“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

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

Bananas are great, as I believe them to be the only known cure for existential dread. Also, Mother Teresa said that in…

— Anne Lamott

My mother might find a thin gold chain at the back of a drawer, wadded into an impossibly tight knot, and give…

— Anne Lamott

There is something so tender about this to me, about being willing to have your makeup wash off, your eyes tear up,…

— Anne Lamott

I know that if I feel any deprivation or fear [about money], the solution is to give. The solution is to go…

— Anne Lamott

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

Having a child as a single mother was a crucible - maybe this is true for all parents. I got rid of…

— Anne Lamott

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

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

“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

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

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

I spent my whole life helping my mother carry around her psychic trunks like a bitter bellhop. So a great load was…

— Anne Lamott

Intelligence, goodness, humanity, excitement, serenity. Over time, these are the things that change the musculature of your face, as do laughter, and…

— Anne Lamott

Now. Maybe you think it is arrogant or self centered, or ridiculous for me to believe that God bothered to wiggle a…

— Anne Lamott