I’m probably just as good a mother as the next repressed, obsessive-compulsive paranoiac. — 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
“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
So I was doing well academically, and I was a well-ranked tennis player and was the apple of my handsome father's eye-and… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“I was raised by my parents to believe that you had a moral obligation to try and save the world. You sent… — 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
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 bet I'm beginning to make some parents nervous - here I am, bragging of being a dropout, and… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
My father was a writer, so I grew up writing and reading and I was really encouraged by him. I had some… — 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
Being a parent is absolutely exhausting and draining, along with all the joy and love. — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
I was raised by my parents to believe that you had a moral obligation to try and help save the world. — 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
“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
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
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
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
“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
“And what do you do in the face of this powerlessness? As a parent?" "You get to be obsessed and angry," Tom… — 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
“You can't find your true voice and peer behind the door and report honestly and clearly to us if your parents are… — 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 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
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 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
