All Anne Lamott Quotes
- The women's movement burst forth when I was fifteen. That was when I began to believe that life might semi-work out after all. The cavalry… All
- You want to give me chocolate and flowers? That would be great. I love them both. I just don't want them out of guilt, and… All
- I never had a particularly strong craving to procreate, except for earlier fantasies of wanting to be Marmee in Little Women. Craving
- The mix in our rooms is so touching: the clutter and the cracks in the wall belie a bleakness or brokenness in our lives; while… Belie
- The opposite of faith is not doubt, it’s certainty. Certainty
- Certainty is missing the point entirely. Certainty
- It's good to do uncomfortable things. It's weight training for life. Cheer
- The depth of the feeling continued to surprise and threaten me, but each time it hit again and I bore it...I would discover that it… Bore
- Jealousy always has been my cross, the weakness and woundedness in me that has most often caused me to feel ugly and unlovable, like the… Air
- Almost all good writing begins with terrible first efforts. You need to start somewhere. All
- Lighthouses don’t go running all over an island looking for boats to save; they just stand there shining. Acceptance
- No" is a complete sentence. Complete
- And I felt like my heart had been so thoroughly and irreparably broken that there could be no real joy again, that at best there… Anymore
- Part of me loves and respects men so desperately, and part of me thinks they are so embarrassingly incompetent at life and in love. You… Afraid
- Forgiveness is giving up all hope of having had a better past. All
- Becoming a writer is about becoming conscious. When you're conscious and writing from a place of insight and simplicity and real caring about the truth,… Ability
- God sent Jesus to join the human experience, which means to make a lot of mistakes. Jesus didn't arrive here knowing how to walk. He… Arrive
- I remember staring at my son endlessly when he was an infant, stunned by his very existence, wondering where on earth he had come from. Earth
- When I was young, I used to be so jealous of other girls that it crippled me. Crippled
- Jealousy has always been my cross, the weakness and woundedness in me that has most often caused me to feel ugly and unlovable, like the… Bad
- I think joy and sweetness and affection are a spiritual path. We're here to know God, to love and serve God, and to be blown… Affection
- I am all the ages I've ever been. Age
- Because this business of becoming conscious, of being a writer, is ultimately about asking yourself, How alive am I willing to be? Alive
- I thought such awful thoughts that I cannot even say them out loud because they would make Jesus want to drink gin straight out of… Alcohol
- E.L. Doctorow said once said that 'Writing a novel is like driving a car at night. You can see only as far as your headlights,… Advice