“Talking to the parents of older kids was helpful for me, since the parents of kids the same age as yours won't… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“To heal, it seems we have to stand in the middle of the horror, at the foot of the cross, and wait… — 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
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
Looking back on the God my friend believed in, he seems a little erratic, not entirely unlike her father - God as… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“My parents, teachers, and the culture I grew up in showed me a drawer in which to stuff my merciful nature, because… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
And my fear of failure has been lifelong and deep. If you are what you do- and I think my parents may… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
You fall so deeply in love with your grandbaby. It's so so so much easier than being a parent, because you really… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
My parents, and librarians along the way, taught me about the space between words; about the margins, where so many juicy moments… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“It's so awful, attacking your child. It's the worse thing I know, to shout loudly at this 50 lb. being with his… — 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
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
My father really taught me that you really develop the habit of writing and you sit down at the same time every… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
I don't have any romantic views of parenting. Every step of the way it's really hard. It's a dangerous world, physically and… — 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
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
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