"Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor." — Anne Lamott
"Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor."
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Anne Lamott
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489 Quotes by Anne Lamott
Anne Lamott has 489 quotes on this site.
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'Help' is a prayer that is always answered.
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I've seen prayers answered. But often, in my experiences, if you get what you pray for, you've really shortchanged yourself.
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You get your confidence and intuition back by trusting yourself, by being militantly on your own side. ... Don't look…
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Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor; the enemy of the people. It will keep you insane your whole life.
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Age has given me what I was looking for my entire life - it gave me me. It provided the…
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You are desperate to communicate, to edify or entertain, to preserve moments of grace or joy or transcendence, to make…
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You get your intuition back when you make space for it, when you stop the chattering of the rational mind.
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In fact, not forgiving is like drinking rat poison and then waiting for the rat to die.
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Charles had once remarked that holding onto a resentment was like eating rat poison and waiting for the rat to…
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To love yourself as you are is a miracle, and to seek yourself is to have found yourself for now.…
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...after a few days at the desk, telling the truth in an interesting way turns out to be as easy…
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They believe that if they do get published, a wonderful new life is in store. It will turn out that…
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Black women don't have the same body image problems as white women. They are proud of their bodies.
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I personally battled with my own body image for years. I used to tell myself, You can't wear anything sleeveless…
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God made a very obvious choice when he made me voluptuous; why would I go against what he decided for…
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I like looking nice, but I always put comfort over fashion. I don't find thin girls attractive; be happy and…
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Girls' inner critics are starting to reveal themselves at a younger and younger age. And body image issues are an…
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We must look for ways to be an active force in our own lives. We must take charge of our…
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Ugly. Is irrelevant. It is an immeasurable insult to a woman, and then supposedly the worst crime you can commit…
— Margaret Cho
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I obviously want to give a healthy body image to my own daughter. I think having good examples, eating properly,…
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Who cares if there are lumps on my thighs? I'm guilty of having human legs made up of fat, muscle,…
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I remember reading these articles when I was younger, and I just felt like, well, in order to look like…
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Pretty much everyone I know, no matter what size, is trying some system. Even when someone gets to looking like…
— Melissa McCarthy
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I fall into that nebulous, quote-unquote, normal American woman size that legions of fashion stylists detest. For the record, I'm…
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